Draper Manuscripts: Kentucky Papers, 1768-1892

Container Title
Series: 24 CC (Volume 24)
Scope and Content Note

Three disparate notebooks bound together:

1) A volume containing a manuscript copy of Thomas Hanson's journal on the Ohio River, April-August, 1774 (of which another copy is in 14 J), with a memorandum of land surveys for William Christian, John Floyd, Patrick Henry, George Washington and others and copies of a few letters of Floyd and Christian in 1774 and 1781 (of which the originals for those in 1774 are in 3 QQ)

2) A small original manuscript account book, 1776-1777, for military supplies, some of which were provided by David Shepherd;

3) A notebook in which Draper entered bibliographical notes on references to Kentucky and Ohio Indian affairs, 1789-1794, found in American State Papers.