Draper Manuscripts: Border Forays Manuscript, 1875-1876

Container Title
Volume   2
Reel   10
Series: Border Forays Manuscript: 2 D
Scope and Content Note

Chapters 9-13. Topics are:

9) the destruction of Fort Loudoun by the Cherokee, 1760; 10) the ambuscade at the Devil's Hole near Niagara Falls in September 1763; 11) a perilous journey up the Maumee by Thomas Morris, 1764; 12) Logan, the Mingo chief, 1710-1780; and 13) Indian eloquence: speeches of Garangula, Pontiac, Shegenaba, Skenando, and Big Elk. Chapters 9-12 were drafted by Butterfield. Both he and Draper contributed segments to chapter 13. Chapter 11 consists primarily of a heavily annotated copy of Morris's journal, which had been published previously in 1791.

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