Series: 7 VV (Volume 7)
Scope and Content Note: Transcripts of papers, primarily 1780-1781. Many were copied by or for Draper from the Horatio Gates Papers in the New-York Historical Society and from other manuscripts in possession of Greene, Hampton, and Sumter family heirs. In addition to Gates, Greene, and Sumter, correspondents include Sumter's aide-de-camp, William Pierce Jr., and such other military and government officers as Thomas Brandon, William Candler, Elijah Clarke, William L. Davidson, Richard and Wade Hampton, Isaac Huger, Edward M. Hyrne, Henry Lee, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, Charles S. Myddelton, Andrew Pickens, Thomas Pinckney, Thomas Polk, William Preston, John Rutledge, John Thomas, and 0.H. Williams. Other pieces range in date from 1777 to 1818; among these is a copy of a Simon Kenton letter (1806), as well as correspondence, a printed handbill, and leaflets related to Sumter's service in Congress (1797-1810). Annotations by Draper are interspersed among the documents.