Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/72/9
Title
Draper-Preston papers
Date(s)
- 1734-1996 (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
110pp
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Correspondence between professors Arnold Schrier and Kerby A. Miller created while researching James Patton and his Irish background [James Lynn Patton (1690 or 1692 – 30 July 1755), an Irish-born (likely Donegal) merchant, pioneer frontiersman, and soldier who settled parts of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Between his immigration to Virginia in 1740, and his death there in 1755, he was a prominent figure in the exploration, settlement, governance, and military leadership of the colony];
- unrelated correspondence regarding the memoir of Manny Steen (P155/14/3/1);
- transcripts of 1730s and 1740s correspondence by and to James Patton, Patton’s will and testament, and other Patton related information provided by the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky;
- photocopied excerpt of Mabel C. Weaks, ed. (1915), The Preston and Virginia Papers (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin), describing the papers of Irish emigrant and American Revolutionary War militiaman William Preston, and Miller’s associated research notes;
- negative reproductions of various letters held on microfilm in the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-Columbia.