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Date: December 12, 1860
Montgomery writes from Mound City, Kansas Territory, to update Stearns on the activities of “old Harney” (General William S. Harney) and the futile federal government efforts at “enforcing the Fugitive…
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Date: November 27, 1860
From Mound City, Kansas Territory, James Montgomery writes George Stearns about recent trouble at Fort Scott and about acting governor George M. Beebe’s visit to Mound City. He came, according…
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Date: May 30, 1860
Caleb Pratt, who seems to be acting as Stearns’ agent in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, at this time, writes regarding the Joseph Gardner request for firearms. On his own initiative, Pratt…
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Date: February 25, 1860
This letter concerns clothing sent from New England to “the poor of Kansas in 1856.” R. A. Randlett of Topeka, Kansas Territory, wants to find out if Thayer’s Emigrant Aid…
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Date: February 1, 1857
From Meadville, Pennsylvania, Cyrus Holliday writes to Franklin Crane, a prominent doctor in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Holliday is anxious to get back to Kansas Territory but family illness has prevented…
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Date: December 27, 1859
Announcement of a Masonic Festival to be held at the Masonic Hall in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, for the public installation of the officers of Lawrence Lodge No. 6 Ancient Free…
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Date: April 23, 1855 to December 1, 1857
Franklin L. Crane was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Topeka Association in 1856. These pages contain the association’s financial accounts, as well as an ongoing narrative…
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Date: December 10, 1855
Certificate issued by the Free State Executive Committee appointing George Washington Brown, editor of the “Herald of Freedom” newspaper, as its agent to pursue immediate admission of Kansas Territory as…
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Date: May 13, 1856
George Washington Brown, editor of the “Herald of Freedom” newspaper, was one of seven free state leaders arrested on May 14, 1856, on charges of high treason and held prisoner…
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Date: July 2, 1856
This letter is written by George Stearns, chairman of the Massachusetts State Kansas Aid Committee. He states the purpose of the committee and explains how it differs from the New…
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Date: April 18, 1856
This printed letter, written by Bradford R. Wood, concerns the April 16, 1856, departure of another group of settlers bound for Kansas Territory. It includes information on how to join…
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Date: July 25, 1858 through December 9, 1859
Joseph Trego first came to Kansas Territory in June, 1857, and settled near Mound City (originally Sugar Mound) in Linn County, Kansas Territory. These diary entries start on July 25,…
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Date: September 10, 1857 through July 24, 1858
Joseph Trego first came to Kansas Territory in June, 1857, and settled near Mound City (originally Sugar Mound) in Linn County, Kansas Territory. He returned to his home near Rock…
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Date: October 26, 1856
From Hickory Point in Jefferson County, George Bell, an agent for the Kansas Central Committee, writes William Hutchinson and James Blood at Lawrence, Kansas Territory, regarding the condition of the…
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Date: October 24, 1856
L. W. Hover, a farmer and freestater who had settled at Wakarusa, Kansas Territory, on June 1, 1856, makes this claim against the funds being distributed by the State Central…
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Date: October 24, 1856
From Brownville, Kansas Territory, Gillpatrick writes seeking compensation for his losses to the “border ruffins” or, specifically, at the hand of “a miserable horse thief from Missouri.” Gillpatrick had been…
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Date: October 20, 1856
This handwritten “appeal” was sent to all those who had supported, or who might be inclined to support, the free state cause in Kansas Territory. The appeal assures them that…
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Date: October 15, 1856
Augustus Wattles writes to Mr. [?] Brown requesting reimbursement for some $700 he had lost in the cause. Although Wattles had not expected to recoup his losses, and in fact…
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Date: October 10, 1856
From Chicago, Illinois, headquarters of the National Kansas Committee, the committee’s vice president writes to authorize James Blood to draw on the treasurer for $3,000 “to be expended under authority…
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Date: September 29, 1856
On behalf of a committee of Lawrence citizens, Hunt and Stearns write the State Central Committee of Kansas “to urge upon your attention several important points in reference to the…
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Date: November 13, 1859
Writing from El Mendaro in Madison County, Kansas Territory, F. M. Cummins speculates about Wood’s November 8, 1859, election defeat. (Interestingly, when the territorial legislature convened in January, 1860, Wood,…
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Date: October 18, 1859
From Columbus, Ohio, Governor Salmon P. Chase writes Samuel Newitt Wood, a former Ohioan, regarding Kansas politics and Chase’s political prospects, speculating about the senatorial contest and the presidential contest…
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Date: October 13, 1859
In this letter from Emporia, Kansas Territory, Newton compliments Wood on an article on Emporia that gave “hell” to the local Republicans and encourages Wood to do it again in…
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Date: July 29, 1859
Written on stationery from Young & Niles, Law and Land Agency at Washington City, D. C., this letter to A. [Asahel?] Beach of “Beach Valley,” Rice County, Kansas Territory, discussed…
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Date: March 1856
Charles H. Grover, the district attorney for the First District in Kansas Territory, signed an indictment of Henry Miles Moore of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, for unlawfully exercising the powers of…
