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Date: January 14, 1855, through December 30, 1860
Samuel L. Adair’s sermon records identified the biblical text, the date, the place where the sermon was given, and the subject (including funeral sermons) for sermons delivered between 1855 and…
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Date: January 4, 1858
James W. Denver, Governor of Kansas Territory, wrote from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, to his wife, Louise Rombach of Clinton County, Ohio. The two married in 1856 and had four children.…
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Date: August 4, 1857
This stock certificate represents one share of stock (No. 50) in the Saint Joseph and Topeka Railroad Company issued to Sevest Swendson. The certificate indicates it is a temporary issue…
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Date: unknown
This blank certificate was intended to be used to acknowledge contributions for the relief of “Free State Citizens” and for the “establishment of FREEDOM” in Kansas Territory. It has three…
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Date: September 19, 1860
J. B. Stansell, recorder for Buckskin Joe’s District, signed this certificate identifying H. C. Childs as owner of mining claim No. 28 SW on the Bates Lode. The certificate was…
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Date: June 9, 1860
This list documents the distribution of the New York Indian lands in Kansas Territory according to provisions of a treaty dated January 15, 1838. The list identified the names of…
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Date: June 9, 1857
In this 1857 document, Charles H. Branscomb, acting on behalf of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, contracted with Abner Doane to construct a school house on Harrison Street in…
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Date: December 9, 1855, through January 1, 1861
This item lists the twenty-one marriage ceremonies Samuel L. Adair performed in Kansas Territory from 1855 to 1861. For each ceremony, Adair identified the bride and groom, the location (often…
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Date: September 10, 1854, through February 7, 1861
This diary, written by Samuel Lyle Adair, during the seven year period from 1854 to 1861, contains scattered entries about Kansas Territory and Adair’s ministry. The first entry indicates that…
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Date: February 19, 1857
This is a copy of a letter written by Samuel Adair from Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. Adair thanks Reverend Gordon for $104 raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio, that was sent to…
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Date: April 30, 1858
Dated April 30, 1858, and executed in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, this handwritten document is an “agreement made and entered into” by John Adams Halderman and Hugh Ewing, representing the “Leavenworth…
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Date: January 11, 1858
Rush Elmore was an associate justice of the Kansas Territory’s supreme court, a leading delegate at the Lecompton Constitutional Convention, and a slave holder. He writes this letter of introduction,…
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Date: [1857]
This document, obviously written by Andrew H. Reeder either to the surveyor or to Reeder’s attorney, John A. Halderman, is undated but was most likely composed in 1857. It addresses…
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Date: June 19, 1857
Alson C. Davis, a Democrat legislator and party leader from Leavenworth (later Wyandotte) County, writes from Wyandotte that he strongly favors “the establishment of a first class democratic paper” in…
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Date: April 27, 1857
Andrew H. Reeder grants his “Power of Attorney” to John A. Halderman, who had served him faithfully in various capacities since 1854, via this notarized, handwritten document dated April 27,…
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Date: February 1, 1857
John W. Whitfield, the Kansas Territory’s delegate to Congress until March 3, 1857, writes John Halderman from “Washington City” regarding the “H__l of a fight” they had had “over Lecompte.”…
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Date: January 4, 1857
Wilson Shannon was an Ohio Democrat who preceded John W. Geary as governor of Kansas Territory (August 1856–August 1857) and was considered a proslave partisan. Shanon writes John Halderman from…
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Date: October 22, 1856
Former Kansas Territory Governor Andrew H. Reeder writes to John Halderman from Easton, Pennsylvania, regarding his business affairs and his desire to have Halderman act as his attorney and agent.…
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Date: July 10, 1856
William L. Blair was issued this certificate for one share of stock in the Lecompton Town Company on July 10, 1856. The certificate is signed by the company’s secretary, Samuel…
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Date: January 16, 1856
Thomas A. Hendricks, commissioner, General Land Office, Lecompton, writes J. A. Halderman of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, regarding a request for information about the preemption laws. Hendricks indicates that circulars are…
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Date: October 6, 1855
This 1855 letter to John A. Halderman from former territorial governor Andrew H. Reeder of Westport, Kansas Territory, describes a new assessment of $5 per share for the town of…
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Date: September 29, 1855
A. H. Reeder enters into an agreement with H. M. Hook for the latter to “erect” an office building on lot #8, block #3 of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. Hook agrees…
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Date: September 24, 1858
Begining with an entry signed by James Montgomery, acknowledging receipt a Sharps rifle and a Colt revolver “to be used in defense of Kansas,” this small leather-bound volume contains over…
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Date: July 12, 1857
The Kansas Central Committee paid $5.50 to brothers Edmund G. Ross and William W. Ross, editors of the “Kansas Tribune,” in Topeka, Kansas Territory, for printing “250 1/8 Posters” for…
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Date: January 7, 1857
On January 7, 1857, the Kansas Central Committee paid $12.64 to Jacob Willits of Shawnee County, Kansas Territory, for this itemized supplies bill.
