Draper Manuscripts: Kentucky Papers, 1768-1892

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Subseries: 27 CC (Volume 27)
Scope and Content Note: Scrapbook of clippings mainly relating to persons and events in the Ohio Valley from Pennsylvania westward. Although principal topics include Samuel Brady, George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, and the proceedings of the Cincinnati, Kentucky, and Maryland historical societies in 1846, there are also biographical articles about Samuel Dale, George Washington, Jacob Wetzel, and William Wirt. A series (1839) by James W. Biddle describes his Great Lakes journey from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Detroit and Michilimackinac, Michigan. There is neither table of contents nor index in this volume.