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Joseph Harrington Trego to Alice Trego
Date: December 11, 1857
Joseph Trego wrote from his cabin near Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory to his wife, Alice, at home in Illinois with their three daugthers. His friend Ell’s trip to St. Louis…
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Joseph Harrington Trego to Alice Trego
Date: December 5, 1857
Joseph Trego wrote from Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, to his wife, Alice, in Illinois. Trego described the furnishings and atmosphere in their “Bachelor’s Hall” of a cabin. As he greatly…
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Joseph Harrington Trego to Alice Trego
Date: October 25, 1857
Joseph Trego wrote from his log cabin near Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, to his wife, Alice, in Illinois. Trego described the beauty of the fall foliage and his plans to…
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Joseph Harrington Trego to Alice Trego
Date: October 16, 1857
Joseph H. Trego wrote from his cabin in Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, to his wife Alice in Rock Island, Illinois, about his journey from Kansas City to Sugar Mound. His…
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Joseph Harrington Trego to Alice Trego
Date: Around September, 1857
Joseph H. Trego, en route via steamboat to Kansas City, wrote to his wife Alice in Rock Island, Illinois. Trego commented on the unpredictable and perilous conditions of steamboat travel…
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Joseph Harrington Trego to an unidentified recipient [probably his wife, Alice Trego]
Date: September 10, 1857
Trego was in St. Louis, Missouri awaiting a boat trip to Kansas City. He describes his trip to that point as well as the weather. Trego was a doctor and…
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John Brown to Martin Franklin Conway, receipts
Date: October 18, 1858
This document consists of a four-page itemized listing (individuals’ name and amount due) of the “notes” received by Martin F. Conway from “Captain John Brown.” Conway endorsed the document at…
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Atchison city directory and business mirror for 1859-60
Date: 1859
This was the first city directory published for Atchison, Kansas. In addition to advertisements, a street directory, and information about various civic institutions in Atchison, it also contained an historical…
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John Brown, Jr., to John Brown
Date: June 22, 1855
This rather lengthy letter from John Brown, Jr., at Brownsville, K.T., to his father, John Brown, regarding the Kansas family’s current situation, physically and economically. John, Jr., provides a hand-drawn…
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Articles of Agreement for Shubel Morgan’s Company
Date: July 12, 1858
In July 1858, fifteen men including Shubel Morgan, alias John Brown, J. H. Kagi, James Montgomery, and Augustus Wattles signed this document and thus “agree[d] to be governed by the…
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Stubbs Militia Company Constitution, By-laws, and Charter
Date: April 16, 1855
The Stubbs militia company was organized on April 16, 1855, to protect Lawrence and the people of Kansas Territory. The constitution limited membership to 64 “rank and file” members and…
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Town Organization of Hyatt, Kansas
Date: May, 1857
This printed item documented the organization of the town of Hyatt in Anderson Couty, Kansas Territory. Issac Hull and C. J. Farley served as the officers at a May 2,…
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Sharps’ Rifle Manufacturing Company, Advertisement
Date: Circa 1855
C. Sharps’ Patent Breech-Loading and Self-Priming Rifle, Carbine, Shot Gun, and Pistol, Manufactured and sold by Sharps’ Rifle Manufacturing Company, at Hartford, Connecticut. This advertisement explained how the rifle was…
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Grand Complimentary Ball
Date: July 29, 1859
This ball was being held in honor of the Democratic members of the constitutional convention that was being held in Wyandotte at Overton’s Hall. Music was provided by the Wyandott…
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Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Abstract of Report
Date: January 1, 1861
Abstract of Report Showing the Operations of the Kansas Territorial Relief Committee to January 1, 1861
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G. Stockmyer, Starving Kansas
Date: December, 1860
This broadside was prepared by G. Stockmyer, agent for Kansas Relief. It included descriptions of the conditions in most parts of Kansas Territory from individuals such as Thaddeus Hyatt, Allen…
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New England Emigrant Aid Company To the People of the United States
Date: June 17, 1856
This printed circular was produced by the executive committee of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to respond to what it perceived as errors in the “Report made to the…
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Territory of Kansas, Executive Minutes
Date: March 24, 1856
President Franklin Pierce, along with his Secretary of State, complied with a resolution brought forth by the House of Representatives, which requested the “transmission of documents touching the affairs of…
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James Henry Lane vs. heirs of Gauis Jenkins
Date: ca. 1860
This document, prepared by Mssrs. Mitchell and Weer, attorneys for James Lane who represented him in his infamous land ownership conflict with Gauis Jenkins, recounts a detailed chronology surrounding the…
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Circular by various Protestant ministers on behalf of the activities of the New England Emigrant Aid Company
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This printed circular indicated that nineteen Protestant ministers in the Boston area were urging emigration to Kansas under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company because the ministers…
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To the public
Date: December 31, 1860
In this pamphlet, Abelard Guthrie, who had been a member of the Quindaro Town Company along with Charles Robinson, accused Robinson of abusing his position as treasurer of the company…
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Kansas Aid Society of Wisconsin, pamphlet
Date: No date
Edward Daniels was an agent for the State Kansas Aid Society of Wisconsin. This undated printed circular encouraged the donation of funds to aid emigration to Kansas or the commitment…
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Organization of the free state government in Kansas with the inaugural speech and message of Governor Robinson
Date: March 4, 1856
This pamphlet provides a vivid description of the scene, players, and proceedings of the initial sessions of the free-state government convened in Topeka. From Governor Charles Robinson’s inaugural speech, the…
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Central County Kansas Committee to the People of the county of Onondaga, New York
Date: August 7, 1856
The inflamatory rhetoric of this printed circular provided an antislavery perspective of events in Kansas. It urged the residents of central New York to provide aid to Kansas settlers. It…
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Orville Chester Brown, business card
Date: Circa 1855-1856
This business card for Orville C. Brown, “agent for the town of Osawatomie, Kansas Territory,” accompaned a list of the advantages of settling in Kansas Territory and the city of…