Series: 2 VV (Volume 2)
Scope and Content Note: Letters, notes, and newspaper and periodical articles. Although these pertain primarily to Sumter's ancestry, some touch upon other topics: traditions of the Sumter family in Virginia; Sumter's early residence in South Carolina; and his trip to England in 1762 with three Cherokee chiefs, Judd's Friend, Oconastota, and Wooe Pidgeon. Transcripts of colonial records and British records from the Public Records Office in London relate particularly to this Cherokee mission to England. Draper's extracts from newspapers of the 1760s refer to Cherokee affairs and leaders including Little Carpenter. Several newspaper items concerning Robert Rogers's assignment to military duty in the West and to his search for the Northwest Passage. Letters by William T. Early contain information on George Rogers Clark, the Clark family, and the black named Tom, who was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.