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Date: March 17, 1856
Writing from New York, on March 17, 1856, three months before accepting the Republican Party nomination for president, John C. Frémont sent this letter of support and encouragement to Charles…
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Date: February 19, 1856
These two typical printed town share certificates (No. 4 and No. 5)each document that “Dr. Chas Robinson” had “one share of six lots in the City of Riley, Kansas Territory.”…
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Date: February 18, 1856
On February 18, 1856, former Kansas Territorial governor, Andrew Reeder, writes Charles Robinson to advise Robinson of the current situation in Washington, D.C., and to urge caution. Reeder believes that…
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Date: February 16, 1856
From “Washington City” on February 16, 1856, former Kansas Territory governor Andrew H. Reeder wrote Charles Robinson regarding Reeder’s efforts to influence Kansas Territory policy in the nation’s capital. Reeder…
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Date: March 18, 1858
A. G. Bradford, writing from Washington, D.C., to Kansas Territory’s governor James H. Denver, suggests that the effort to admit Kansas Territory as a state under the Lecompton Constitution likely…
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Date: March 5, 1858
James H. Noteware, superintendent of schools for Kansas Territory, wrote from Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, to Governor James W. Denver seeking the governor’s support for Noteware’s effort to establish a school…
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Date: January 31, 1856
Amos Lawrence wrote from Boston, Massachusetts, to advise his friend, Charles Robinson, to submit to the authority of recognized officers of the U.S. government, no matter how unjust their actions…
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Date: 1856
This is a five-page account of the May 24, 1856, killings on Pottawatomie Creek, apparently written by James Hanway shortly after the incident. Hanway identified the five pro-slavery victims by…
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Date: March 12, 1860
James Hanway, a friend and follower of John Brown during the Kansas troubles, writes James Redpath from Shermansville in Franklin County, Kansas Territory, about a book Redpath had written entitled…
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Date: April 21, 1857
Campbell G. Dick was Reverend Adair’s brother-in-law, and wrote from his home in Marshall, Highland County, Ohio, that he supported the American Missionary Association as it promoted Christianity, but was…
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Date: June 8, 1856
Martha Davis provides information on the recent death of Father (probably Owen Brown, abolitionist John Brown’s father). She writes that they had heard of the conflict at Osawatomie, Kansas Territory,…
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Date: December 14, 1859
Jones, a Congregational minister who lived in Wabaunsee, Kansas Territory, wrote to Samuel L. Adair after John Brown’s attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Jones asked Adair to write to him…
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Date: March 23, 1858
The rules identify the conditions under which Congregational churches or societies receive funds for building a Congregational church in a specific community. The money came from the “Fore Father’s Day…
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Date: June 8, 1857
Dr. Barstow Darrach, writing from the New York Hospital, wrote Adair in great detail about his opinions of Kansas Territory’s Governor Robert J. Walker and other political happenings in Kansas…
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Date: April 20, 1857
Barstow Darrach, a doctor at New York Hospital, wrote Adair that he was encouraged by the results of the recent Leavenworth election, and that he had authorized a Mr. Tator…
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Date: February 16, 1857
Writing from Mercer, Pennsylvania, Barker, a former classmate of Adair’s at Oberlin College, commented on the political situation in regard to Kansas Territory and pro-slavery forces, including pro-slavery churches.
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Date: January 27, 1857
H. J. (Mrs. John) Williams writes to express her sympathy for the conditions Mrs. Adair has to endure in Kansas Territory and eloquently describes what suffering she felt Mrs. Adair…
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Date: January 8, 1857
Dr. Barstow Darrach wrote to comment upon recent events at the national level and the prospect of little support for the free state cause from either Congress or President Buchanan.…
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Date: December 28, 1856
Mrs. E. L. Partridge writes Samuel L. Adair to report upon the condition of her husband, William, who is a prisoner in Tecumseh, Kansas Territory. Mr. Partridge was one of…
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Date: December 17, 1856
Dr. Barstow Darrach writes from the New York Hospital to comment on published reports that implied the prospects for Kansas Territory becoming a free state were improving. Darrach shares his…
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Date: November 27, 1856
Dr. Barstow Darrach had returned to New York Hospital after being in Kansas Territory. He wrote that he felt the prospects were not very favorable for Kansas Territory. He had…
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Date: October 29, 1856
Mrs. Williams had been a member of one of Rev. Samuel L. Adair’s churches in Lafayette, Ohio. She writes Mrs. Adair about her concern for the Adair family during all…
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Date: June 12, 1856
This document contains brief affidavit statements made by several free state supporters of the character and personal habits of William and Henry Sherman, and Allen Wilkinson, who were described as…
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Date: 1858
This act pertains to the election of delegates to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention in the Kansas Territory.
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Date: October 19, 1857
This printed letter written by E. B. Whitman describeds the success of Kansas volunteers in organizing to help freemen and the lack of success with voting lists. The Kansas Volunteers…
