Series: 14 CC (Volume 14)
Scope and Content Note: (Shane IV and V). A volume composed of two of Shane's notebooks. Volume IV contains notes of interviews he gathered in Ohio in Adams, Brown, and Clermont counties and in the city of Cincinnati; notes and pictorial sketches of Indian artifacts he viewed in a Cincinnati museum; and a genealogical record of the family of Joel Williams (d. 1824), a native of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Recollections of a student rebellion at Princeton College were given by Elijah Slack and Charles Cist mentioned a meeting with Draper near Philadelphia. Volume V opens with a manuscript copy of Robert B. McAfee's “History ... of the First Settlements on Salt River and Establishment of New Providence Church” (of which Draper's copy is in 4 CC). Miscellaneous historical, biographical, and bibliographical memoranda fill the remaining pages. Persons and topics mentioned in Shane's notes and interviews are described in detail in the calendar.