Series: 16 CC (Volume 16)
Scope and Content Note: (Shane XI and XIII). Two additional Shane notebooks containing a varied assortment of historical material. Notebook XI includes Shane's manuscript copy of a genealogical pamphlet on the Preston family compiled by John Brown and edited (1842) with additions by his son Orlando; copies of Levi Todd papers made in 1854 from originals then owned by Mrs. Robert S. Todd; notes on several Kentucky ministers and churches; a few interviews; extracts from Presbyterian congregational records for the New Londonderry Congregation and from marriage and birth records of the White Oak and Red Oak congregations (all in Virginia); and an index to articles of interest to Shane in the Frankfort Commonwealth, 1833-1843. In notebook XIII are Shane's copies of articles from a few eighteenth-century newspapers and periodicals; a description of an Indian attack in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1764 and the subsequent captivity of the grandmother of G. Blackburn Kinkead; a biography of Kentucky soldier and governor John Adair (1759-1840) by Thomas B. Monroe; memoranda and Fontaine genealogy abstracted from Ann Maury's Memoirs of a Huguenot Family ... (New York, 1853); records of interviews with Kentucky pioneers mainly in Fayette County; and notes on several additional Presbyterian clergymen and churches. Draper's research is mentioned in the interview with Joseph Ficklin. This volume, 16 CC, contains indexing, tables of contents, and many other annotations by Draper.