Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Forsyth Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1804-1833

Creator:

• Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833

Call Number: Draper Mss T

Quantity: 1.5 cubic feet (9 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Thomas Forsyth, a Chicago and Peoria, Illinois fur trader who served as Indian agent for the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Missouri from 1818-1830 at Rock Island. The papers contain materials on the War of 1812 in the West, including correspondence (1812-1817) of the territorial governors of Illinois and Missouri, Ninian Edwards and William Clark, concerning military operations in Illinois and American attempts to secure Indian allies.

Note:

Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present.

This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English, Sauk, Fox, Ojibwa, Kickapoo, Pottawatomi, Ottawa, Sioux, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Iowa

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper00t

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