Draper Manuscripts: Virginia Papers, 1772-1869

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Series: 11 ZZ (Volume 11)
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Copies of two journals:

1) Orderly book and journal kept by James Newell on the Point Pleasant campaign, 1774. This copy, sent to Draper by Ben Rush Floyd, is accompanied by an index by Draper.

2) “Journal... from Fort Patrick Henry on Holston river, to the French Salt Springs [French Lick] on Cumberland river,” written by John Donelson, 1777-1780. This copy, in Draper's handwriting, bears no annotation on its source, but Draper may have copied it from the printed version in A.W. Putnam, History of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, 1859).

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