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Draper Manuscript Collection

Look for ancestors from New York 1740-1830 in the Draper Manuscript Collection. It consists of 491 volumes of partially-indexed manuscripts, papers, and books collected by Lyman C. Draper. They cover the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830.