Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Revolutionary War Pension Statements
Inclusive Dates: compiled 19th century

Call Number: Draper Mss OO

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)

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:

Three notebooks numbered and bound together by Lyman Copeland Draper. These contain extracts from the statements of military service in the federal pension applications of approximately one hundred western Revolutionary soldiers or their widows, which Draper copied in the Pension Office in Washington, D.C. Each notebook contains his index by name of applicant. Also in this volume is a genealogical statement by James Sevier about the marriage of his father John Sevier to his second wife Catherine Sherrill with a list of their children.

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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper0oo

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