Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Tennessee Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1771-1883

Call Number: Draper Mss XX

Quantity: 1.4 cubic feet (7 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:

Original papers of early Tennessee settlers, their reminiscences, and Draper's correspondence with surviving pioneers and descendants. Draper gathered most of this material for proposed biographies of Joseph Martin, James Robertson, John Sevier, and their comrades. Included are original correspondence; military records; papers on Indian affairs; land surveys; and Draper's correspondence with noted historian J.G.M. Ramsey and descendants of the settlers.

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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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-draper0xx

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