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Date: July 7, 1856
Marian S. (Brown) Hand, Rawsonville, Ohio, writes her sister, Florella Brown Adair, and brother-in-law, Samuel Adair, inquiring about events in Kansas Territory and about their brother, John Brown, and his…
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Date: February 23, 1857
Rachel Garrison writes to her cousin, Samuel Adair, that she had a little daughter two months old, which meant she was pregnant when her husband, David Garrison, was killed in…
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Date: December 15, 1856
James Garrison writes from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to his cousin Samuel Adair in Kansas Territory. The letter discusses relief efforts on behalf of the free state settlers…
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Date: December 12, 1856
G. S. Lewis,a friend of Samuel Adair, writes from Albany in Athens County, Ohio. Lewis was concerned about the safety of the Adair family, and commented on the trials they…
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Date: June 14, 1856
H. H. Williams writes from Tecumseh, Kansas Territory, where he was imprisoned along with seven other suspects in the Pottawatomie massacre, to inform Rev. Samuel Adair of their situation. The…
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Date: November 14, 1857
In response to several letters from Whitman about money, George Stearns writes from Boston, Massachusetts, to clarify a few issues. He gives an account of available funds and provides instruction…
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Date: October 11, 1857
E. B. Whitman, an agent of the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, reports from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, about money problems and his efforts to provide assistance to abolitionist John Brown, etc.…
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Date: September 28, 1857
In this letter to Stearns, Marsh expresses confidence that the October, 1857, election would turn in favor of the Free State Party. Marsh had been traveling in the “Southern Counties”…
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Date: August 27, 1857
In this letter from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Marsh reports that despite opposition from Judge Martin Conway, the delegates at the Grasshopper Falls Convention on August 26 “voted to go into…
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Date: July 21, 1857
From Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Marsh writes his third letter in four days to keep his Massachusetts colleague informed about Gov. Walker’s occupation of Lawrence. Marsh, who had known the governor…
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Date: May 1, 1857
This is the first of three letters from T. W. Carter, agent for the Massachusetts Arms Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, to George Luther Stearns. Mr. Stearns was president of…
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Date: May 3, 1855
Samuel Adair writes from Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, to thank Reverend Jocelyn, an official of the American Missionary Association, for his encouragement and fiscal support of $100. Adair says they would…
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Date: July 24, 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: March 7, 1857
“The Prairie Star” was a weekly, handwritten, literary publication produced from January through April, 1857, by the Topeka-based Kansas Philomathic Institute (also known as the Philomathic Literary Society). The literary…
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Date: January 31, 1857
“The Prairie Star” was a weekly, handwritten, literary publication produced from January through April, 1857, by the Topeka-based Kansas Philomathic Institute (also known as the Philomathic Literary Society). The literary…
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Date: January 24, 1857
“The Prairie Star” was a weekly, handwritten, literary publication produced from January through April, 1857, by the Topeka-based Kansas Philomathic Institute (also known as the Philomathic Literary Society). The literary…
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Date: November 12, 1856
Itemized list of clothing, food, and other provisions issued by the Kansas Central Committee to Dr. Samuel E. Martin for distribution “in Topeka and vicinity among the destitute.”
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Date: June 4, 1860
Henry Adams was in Washington, D. C., as a special agent of Kansas Territory attempting to convince the U. S. Congress to pay claims for damages suffered by Kansas citizens…
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Date: December 31, 1858
Charles Robinson writes from Washington, D. C., to speculate about the prospects for financing and building a railroad in the Kansas River valley. He contends that government land grants would…
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Date: April 28, 1858
Wattles, writing from Fort Scott, Kansas Territory, describes the violence in the southern portion of Kansas Territory shortly before the Marais des Cygnes massacre.
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Date: March 23, 1858
Jacob Collamer, a U. S. senator from Vermont, writes from Washington, D. C., in response to a request from William Hutchinson for assistance in Hutchinson’s plan to speculate in land…
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Date: March 5, 1858
William Hutchinson seeks assistance from Jacob Collamer, a U.S. senator from Vermont, on a plan to speculate in land on the Delaware Indian reservation in Kansas Territory.
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Date: December 18, 1857
Henry J. Raymond, editor of the “New York Times,” encloses a statement itemizing William Hutchinson’s columns published in the “New York Times” newspaper in the fall of 1857. Raymond expresses…
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Date: December 17, 1857
Jacob Collamer, a U.S. senator from Vermont, cautions William Hutchinson against an attempt to establish a Kansas state government under the Topeka Constitution without the consent of Congress.
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Date: October 10, 1857
Henry J. Raymond, editor of the “New York Times,” speculates that Kansas Territory would become a free state because President Buchanan would pursue such a course out of political necessity.…
