Source:Draper Manuscripts

Draper Manuscripts at Truman State Univ

Guides

Guide to the Draper Manuscripts (Microfilm F 586 .D7 1980 Guide) This guide contains an index to the Draper Manuscripts. Each set of papers within the collection is described and there are several useful appendices, such as a list of maps contained in the collection.

Usage Tips

Scope: Works and papers collected by Lyman Draper on the history of the trans-Allegheny West, an area that includes portions of the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, the entire Ohio Valley and the Mississippi Valley. Most materials cover the time period from the 1740's through the 1810's. There are nearly 500 volumes in this collection. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for which Draper served as corresponding secretary from 1854-1886, now owns the collection of original 18th and 19th century papers.

This collection includes letters, miscellaneous legal documents, transcripts of interviews, family and personal records, land deeds, muster rolls, military discharges and business records collected by Draper.

Calendars of eight series are on microfiches as are printed volumes on the Ohio River valley: Pioneer's mission, the story of Lyman Copeland Draper / W. B. Hesseltine -- Frontier advance on the upper Ohio, 1778-1779 / L. P. Kellogg -- Frontier retreat on the upper Ohio, 1779-1781 / L. P. Kellogg -- Documentary history of Dunmore's War, 1774 / R. G. Thwaites -- Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778 / R. G. Thwaites -- Revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775-1777 / R. G. Thwaites.

How to search the collection

Each collection of papers has been given a letter or letters that designates that collection. See the list for these letter designations. The collection has been divided into volumes and each page with the volume has been numbered.

Further Research

Further research at [1] and [2]