Series: 1 EE (Volume 1)
Scope and Content Note: Selections and extracts copied from transcripts of Colonial Office papers, 1671-1778, (of which the originals are now in the British Public Records Office) which had been made in London for the New York State Library in Albany. Most of these copies (pages 1-265) were made by Draper in the fall of 1848, but a few (pages 267-291) were completed by a copyist he engaged briefly earlier that year. This volume illustrates one of Draper's methods of gathering source material, but not long after his copies were made, the records were printed in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, volumes III-VIII (1853-1857).