{"id":2769,"date":"2013-02-13T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2020-03-20T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:23:08","slug":"draper-manuscript-collection-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2013\/02\/13\/draper-manuscript-collection-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Draper Manuscript Collection Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Draper Manuscript Collection is now available online for free at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/wiki\/en\/Draper_Manuscript_Collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FamilySearch.org<\/a>. Lyman C. Draper (1815-1891) collected information on America\u2019s first frontier and its notable figures and events, such as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, and The Battle of King\u2019s Mountain. Draper\u2019s papers include a treasure trove of information on the frontier settlers of the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The original papers are held at the Wisconsin Historical Society. They include thousands of handwritten letters of correspondence comprising nearly 500 volumes of information not available anywhere else about the pioneer settlers of the trans-Allegheny West.<\/p>\n<p>The papers are now available online for free for the first time at FamilySearch.org. Find them in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/wiki\/en\/Draper_Manuscript_Collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cUnited States, Draper Manuscript Collection, 1740-1892\u2033<\/a>\u00a0browse collection. For further details, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/wiki\/en\/Draper_Manuscript_Collection#Description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collection description<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/wiki\/en\/Draper_Manuscript_Series_Coverage_Table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coverage table<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Draper Manuscript Collection is now available online for free at\u00a0FamilySearch.org. Lyman C. Draper (1815-1891) collected information on America\u2019s first frontier and its notable figures and events, such as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, and The Battle of King\u2019s Mountain. Draper\u2019s papers include a treasure trove of information on the frontier settlers of the Carolinas,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2013\/02\/13\/draper-manuscript-collection-online\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10578,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/10578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}