At 04:56 PM 08/29/2002 -0700, you wrote: >What are the Draper manuscripts ? >http://www.netease.net/decatur/draper.htm > >There are some short interviews at the URL below about the South Branch >Potomac, Moorefield mentioning Stump, Buffington, Harness, Yocum/Yokum >and many other folks with familiar names . > >http://frontierfolk.org/draper.htm > >A http://google.com <http://google.com/> search reveals quite a bit of >info on the Draper documents The State historical society of his state, whatever it was (Wisconsin, maybe?), indexed his notebooks, which are designated by letters of the alphabet. This index is available in many places. Microfilm of the Collection itself is also widely available and I have used the version at the DAR Library in Washington DC in 1973. SOME of these mss are incredibly useful information. The potential user should use caution, however -- not all the Series have been converted to print, many, and specifically Series JJ, remains in manuscript form. When I used Series JJ at the DAR Library when the microfilm first became available, I spent nearly two hours figuring out that there was no ORDER to his notes, and the next three hours "on spec". Series JJ was somewhat less productive than day-dreaming. YMMV, of course. Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)