Five notebooks bound together:

1) Book A contains extracts from the Maryland Gazette, 1752-1759, with numerous items about George Washington's frontier activities in the years 1753-1755.

2) Book B includes extracts, 1756, 1778, including entries on the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. Among Draper's sources were the Maryland Gazette, 1774-1778; the New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, 1771-1773; the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1756-1763; the Pennsylvania Journal, 1767, 1774; and two entitled Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon's and Rind's), 1758-1774.

3) Book C contains entries entirely from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1755-1761, and is devoted primarily to Cherokee affairs.

4) Book D, on the same major topic as Book C, is composed of selections from the Maryland Gazette, 1759-1760.

5) Book E, with entries also from the Maryland Gazette, 1760-1768, contains additional Cherokee material as well as extracts on military and Indian affairs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in the 1763-1768 period.