Just thought I would advise everyone that the Draper Papers cover a wide area, and not particularly the Midwest. Lyman Draper lived (I believe on the Erie Canal) among Old Revolutioners. He was very enchanted by their stories and began writing down their information. His brother-in-law supported him as he traveled all over the then United States visiting old soldiers and/or their families, collecting along with the stories, lists and lists of person who were early settlers in an area, Bible records, deeds, etc, anything he could get his hands on, and was not, as I understand it, too particular about lifting public records. Late in life, he was hired by the Wisconsin Historical Society. He had all of his trunks of papers shipped to Wisconsin. He left all of his manuscripts, etc. to the Wisconsin Historical Society. When they went to his home to "collect", they found every room in his home stacked high with all of his "jewels" and were "hard put" to get through the home. Lou in Indiana