Series: 6 ZZ (Volume 6)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly copies of pension applications from Revolutionary veterans who had served in western Virginia, although some described service at Valley Forge and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Interspersed are a few incoming letters to Draper, newspaper clippings relating to Samuel McCulloch, the Zane family and Fort Henry at Wheeling, and a few original eighteenth-century pieces. The latter include a contemporary copy of Thomas Buford's will (1774); a letter (September, 1777) by David Zeisberger to Edward Hand discussing the Indian situation from Detroit to Kentucky, accompanied by a copy of a message by the Delaware chief, Captain White Eyes; letters (also September, 1777) by Daniel McFarland, David Shepherd, and John Van Meter about the defeat of William Foreman's scouting-party; and John Bowman's account (1782-1783) with William Fleming for medicines.