This transcript, made from the 1980 microfilm edition of the Draper Manuscripts (Volume 5ZZ), consists largely of receipt books and other financial records relating to the Cherokee War (or a Expeditiona ) of 1776-1777. It gives insight into not only who par

This transcript, made from the 1980 edition of the Draper Manuscripts, is concerned in large part with the military careers of General Elijah Clarke of Georgia and his son, John Clarke, Governor of Georgia; Major Benjamin Few; Colonel William Chandler; Co

This captivating collection of transcripts taken from the Draper Manuscript Collection consists of a series of letters concerning American pioneers in Illinois, along with a few original papers of Capt. James Piggott. History told from this first-hand per

This volume deals in large part with a skirmish with the Indians in Augusta County, Virginia, in December 1742. It also contains considerable material on the sieges of Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1777 and 1782 and the role of the Zane family in the defens

The Virginia Papers were collected and partly arranged by Lyman C. Draper with the idea of publishing a revised edition of the work of Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1