Collections

The collection consists primarily of letters to and from Daniel Burnap’s family and documents relating to his work as a justice of the peace, including court summonses and other legal and financial documents. There are also numerous bills, receipts and accounts, along with deeds, military documents and more. The earliest documents are from the late early 1780s and the latest from the 1850s, after Daniel died. The bulk of the collection dates roughly between 1800 and 1838. The collection has been divided into correspondence, financial records, Justice of the Peace records, and assorted documents and then organized chronologically by year and partially by day and month. Several sets of documents found in labeled wrappers have been preserved separately in the manner Daniel had collected them.