I know of 5,not 3 calandar's,and own 4. Do not own one on SC. I do own a calandar on GR CLARK,but it's not home right now. Plus, my favorite part is the interviews Lyman Draper bought from Rev Shane, who interviewed Ky pioneers 50 years after the fact. Draper did not buy all of Shane's papers. The rest went to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, where 1990-93 a book of abstracts of Shane's collection was published. Rev Shane was especially interested in Presbyterian church events. Both included a few early church records. S BROWN and s Adams Co Presbyterian records On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:16:55 -0500 hrarmstrong@juno.com writes: >Here's a message on the Draper Manuscripts that I've kept in my >"reference" folder. If you read down through it, it explains not only >what they are but how to go about accessing them. University libraries >often have the "calendars", which is like a table of contents (they >contain a name index) as well as Harper's Guide. Don't know if Teri is >still on kyroots. > >--------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Teri Pettit <pettit@ADOBE.COM> >To: KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU >Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:05:20 -0700 >Subject: The Draper Manuscripts, overview >Message-ID: <v02140b01b22c6fe13bba@[153.32.55.197]> > >> I have been told that Lyman Draper traveled extensivly in >KY-OHIO-IND etc at >>the time of the revolutionary war. He kept a diary and interviewed >many of the >>people that he knew were doing things that he belived would be of >importance >>later. >> He made contact with the BOONE family ,Simon KENTON, etc. Over a >lifetime >>his diary grew to several volumes. In old age he tried to sell it to >the State >>of KY.but was turned down and it ended up at the Univ. of Wisc. I >understand >>it has never been published, but is available on microfilm. > >To call the Draper Manuscripts collection of Lyman Copeland Draper's >research >notes a "diary" is quite an understatement. Draper (1815-1891) did not >live >at the time of the Revolutionary War, but that era was the focus of >his >research. >He intended to write biographies on Boone, Kenton, George Rogers >Clark, and >Tecumseh, among others, but he was more researcher than writer and >never felt >like he was done collecting background material. > >The collection, in the custody of the State Historical Society of >Wisconsin >(not the University), comprises nearly 500 handwritten volumes >organized into >52 "series" labelled from A to ZZ. The series collect documents with >similar >subject matter and dates of collection. The volumes within a series >are >numbered. >Some of the series contain only one volume; series J (George Rogers >Clark >Papers) >is the largest with 64 volumes, series CC (Kentucky Papers) is the >second >largest >with 37 volumes. > >The collection was microfilmed onto 133 reels in 1949, and again into >123 reels >in 1980. > >Selections from some of the series of most general interest have been >published >in excerpt form, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites & Louise Phelps >Kellogg. >They include: > > Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774. (1905) > Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777. (1908) > Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778. (1912) > Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, 1778-1779. (1916) > Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781. (1917) > >(A court martial record of my GGGG Grandfather Matthew Pettit is >reprinted >in the Frontier Advance volume.) These volumes are available in many >libraries. > >Publishing selections proved to require more money and staff than the >Historical >Society of Wisconsin could muster. They turned to publishing what they >called >"calendars", which are sort of like annotated Tables of Contents. A >calendar >takes a series, and provides one or two paragraphs describing each >item >(article, letter, interview, etc.) in it. The calendars are surname >indexed. > >The calendars include: > > Preston and Virginia Papers, Series QQ and ZZ. (1915) > Kentucky Papers, Series CC. (1925) > Tennessee and King's Mountain Papers, Series XX and DD. (1929) > >In 1983 the Historical Society published > > Guide to the Draper Manuscripts, edited by Josephine L. Harper. > >This is commonly known as "Harper's Guide". It is still in print and >can be >ordered from any bookstore that does custom orders. It takes the >"calendar" >idea and applies it to the collection as a whole. It has a general >introduction >to using the Draper Manuscripts for research, and then gives a >description >of the focus and major contents of each of the 500 volumes. The >descriptions >vary in length, from 1/4 page to 2 pages, but average about 1/2 page. >The >descriptions comprise about 240 pages. There is then an index that is >about >220 pages long, full names, indexed by volume number. > >The microfilms are hard to find things in, since there is such a lot >of >material, nearly all handwritten (there are some newspaper clippings), >and >no page numbering. Getting a very good idea of where you want to look >from >Harper's Guide and/or the published calendars is nearly a must if you >are to >make use of the microfilms. > >Hope this helps. > > Teri Pettit > Adobe Systems Inc. > San Jose, CA 95110-2704 > > >==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== Help Instructions at: >http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html or contact Betty >at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net Archives: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.