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Date: 1858
This draft report, written by Samuel L. Adair, covers the year 1857 and also describes the organization of the Congregational Church in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. Samuel L. Adair was preaching…
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Date: December 17, 1856
In this letter, Samuel Adair thanks Mary P. Green for $35 sent by the ladies of La Salle County, Illinois. He indicates that he would try to distribute the money…
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Date: July 21, 1855
The Pawnee Association issued this certificate for “one share of the town property” to Thomas Sherwood, a business associate of Kansas Territory governor Andrew Reeder. Sherwood was involved in many…
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Date: June 25, 1855
Tlhis legal document is signed by three trustees of the Leavenworth Town Association (Oliver Diefendorf, William S. Yohe, and J. M. Day). This contract sells lot #19 in block #17…
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Date: December 20, 1854
This printed certificate for “one share” in the Pawnee Association is made out to Thomas Sherwood and signed by W. R. Montgomery, president, and William A. Hammond, secretary. William R.…
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Date: November 20, 1854
Dr. William A. Hammond, secretary of the Pawnee town company, was post surgeon at Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, in 1854-55. He writes from the “Catholic Mission” (probably the Potawatomi mission…
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Date: November 7, 1854
John N. Dyer of Pawnee, Kansas Territory, writes Governor Reeder to say that the Pawnee Town Association, which had been formed in November, 1854, and of which Dyer was secretary,…
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Date: October 9, 1854
This certificate is “five shares of the Town property of Leavenworth Association” for Andrew H. Reeder, the first governor of Kansas Territory. The certificate is signed by H. Miles Moore,…
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Date: June 27, 1854
From Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, C. C. Andrews writes a short letter to inform John Halderman that “nothing has transpired” at that location during the past week or so, but…
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Date: March 27, 1861
From Chicago, Illinois, H. B. Hurd inquires about reports that the Kansas legislature was to appoint a committee to investigate the conduct of the National Kansas Committee’s agents and their…
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Date: October 27, 1860
As were several other individuals from Illinois, Holder writes to notify Blood that the people in his community (around Bloomington, Illinois) are eager to share their “abundance” with “their brethren…
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Date: January 13, 1859
Governor Samuel Medary, writing from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, to former governor James W. Denver, reports on his successful effort to convince the Territorial House of Representatives to pass a bill…
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Date: November 19, 1858
Acting territorial governor Hugh S. Walsh writes from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, to Secretary of State Lewis Cass. Walsh requests permission to use $3000 remaining from funds appropriated for the August…
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Date: September 12, 1860
W. H. Powell writes that Rev. Charles Reynolds, who had written to James Blood on the 7th and the 10th of September, 1860, had raised $600-$700 in relief money. Reynolds…
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Date: November 22, 1858
Acting territorial governor Hugh S. Walsh, writing from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, to former territorial governor James W. Denver, describes his strategy for the upcoming session of the territorial legislature. Walsh…
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Date: August 26, 1860
From Bloomington, Illinois, W. H. Powell, the Illinois State Superintendent of Public Instruction, writes that he had noticed James Blood’s call for seed wheat for the “unfortunate settlers of Kansas,”…
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Date: May 29, 1860
Joseph Gardner, a free-state partisan of Douglas County, Kansas Territory, and a member of the Dr. John Doy rescue party, writes Stearns requesting firearms and ammunition as there were people…
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Date: April 13, 1858
Whitman writes a rather lengthy update on the Kansas Territory situation for Stearns, focusing on the political machinations of the few and the uncertain situation created by the Lecompton debate.…
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Date: February 20, 1858
This rather lengthy report from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, addresses many issues, especially those surrounding the Lecompton constitutional controversy. With “the Topeka Movement . . . abandoned,” the question is what…
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Date: September 29, 1856
Writing from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Charles Robinson writes to his wife, Sara Robinson, who was traveling East via Chicago, Illinois. After kidding her about how well-known she was becoming, he…
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Date: October 25, 1857
In this report from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Whitman complains about his money problem and writes that abolitionist John Brown would be in Lawrence for “a very important council” of the…
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Date: September 7, 1857
Nearly two months into his Kansas Territory assignment, Marsh reports several significant observations about the Free State Party: Governor Walker’s apparent commitment to a fair canvas, the rapidly approaching territorial…
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Date: August 11, 1857
On August 11, 1857, Marsh reports from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, that territorial governor Walker is “still here with his Troops, but nobody pays any regard to him, or them.” According…
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Date: July 18, 1857
Thomas J. Marsh, who arrived in Kansas Territory on July 11, 1857, made Lawrence his base of operation. He was an agent for the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee. His objective…
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Date: November 9, 1854
This is a follow up document to James Emery’s appointment as Justice of the Peace for the First District, Kansas Territory. It is signed by Andrew Reeder, Territorial Governor.
