[Footnote: Draper MSS.

in Wisconsin State Hist.Ass.Clark papers.

Walter Darrell to Col.

William Fleming, St.Asaphs, April 14, 1783.

These valuable Draper MSS, have been opened to me by Mr.Reuben Gold Thwaites, the State Librarian; I take this opportunity of thanking him for his generous courtesy, to which I am so greatly indebted.] The litigation over these confused titles dragged on with interminable tediousness.