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Date: February 5, 1857
James Redpath, a journalist who had spent some time in Kansas Territory, writes this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, an abolitionist and agent of the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee.…
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Date: June 4, 1859 through September 15, 1859
This twenty-one page excerpt is from Daniel Webster Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas.” It covers the period of June 4, 1859, through September 15, 1859, and includes the text of the…
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Date: April, 1856
D. W. Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas,” published in 1886, provides a day-by-day chronicle of significant events in Kansas. These are digital images of Annals of Kansas entries for the territorial…
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Date: Between June 25, 1856 and November 28, 1856
This expense account sheet, along with the attached memorandum, was written by Martin Stowell for the Worcester Committee in Massachusetts. Stowell had been functioning in Lexington, Kansas Territory, as the…
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Date: December 18, 1856
Samuel G. Howe, a member of the National Kansas Committee, writes this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, a supporter of abolitionist John Brown and an agent for the Massachusetts…
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Date: October 30, 1856
This letter was written by John B. Dunning, a member of the Massachusetts Company which had been operating in the Kansas Territory, to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, a prominent Northern…
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Date: October 20, 1856
This telegraphic dispatch was sent by Thaddeus Hyatt from New York to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson in Worcester, Massachusetts, via the Union Telegraphic Company. Hyatt, who was president of the…
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Date: April, 1855 through May, 1855
D. W. Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas,” published in 1886, provides a day-by-day chronicle of significant events in Kansas. These are digital images of Annals of Kansas entries for the territorial…
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Date: 1855
This circular letter is written by antislavery supporter Reverend Lyman Beecher to leaders of regional churches in the Boston, Massachusetts, area (such as deacons, wardens, vestries, etc.). The circular seeks…
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Date: May 29, 1854
This document is the Constitution and bylaws of the Union Emigration Society. It includes the purpose of the society and information about how to become a member.
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Date: December 18, 1856 and December 19, 1856
This letter, dated December 18, 1856, is addressed to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson by Emily Kimball, a representative of the ladies of Oakham, Massachusetts. The letter includes three dollars for…
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Date: December 1, 1856
This letter was written by Caleb Pratt from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson in Worcester, Massachusetts. Pratt thanks Higginson for the revolvers that he had furnished for…
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Date: January, 1855 through February, 1855
D. W. Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas,” published in 1886, provides a day-by-day chronicle of significant events in Kansas. These are digital images of Annals of Kansas entries for the territorial…
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Date: November 26, 1856
This letter, written from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, by Samuel C. Smith, is addressed to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson of Worcester, Massachusetts. The letter begins with several small matters regarding aid…
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Date: November 19, 1856
This letter from Martin Stowell, written from Nebraska City, Nebraska, was sent to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, agent of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee in Worcester, Massachusetts, to keep him…
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Date: November 14, 1856
H. B. Hurd was secretary of the National Kansas Committee in Chicago, Illinois. He writes this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson in Worcester, Massachusetts, from the committee’s office in…
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Date: November 6, 1856
This letter from Richard J. Hinton was written from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, who was a radical abolitionist and agent of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee.…
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Date: November 5, 1856
This document lays out the plan of action proposed by Charles Robinson at a meeting of free state leaders in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 5, 1856. Most likely these notes…
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Date: October 27, 1856
Martin Stowell, from Nebraska City, Nebraska, is writing to Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Stowell and other members of his company from Massachusetts had been driven out of Kansas Territory. Fortunately,…
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Date: October 23, 1856
In this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, who was an agent of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee, Mr. Dunn writes from Oskaloosa, Iowa, about his attempts to gather together…
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Date: September 27, 1856
This letter is written by a Kansas settler named J. A. Davies who was originally from Massachusetts. It is addressed to Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an agent for the Massachusetts…
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Date: September 19, 1856
In this letter to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, Franklin B. Sanborn writes about the prospects of raising money and men to support the Kansas Territory cause. He also mentions that…
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Date: August 26, 1856
B. B. Newton, an agent with the Vermont State Kansas Committee, acknowledges receipt of twenty rifles from Reverend Thomas W. Higginson. Newont plans to transport these twenty rifles to the…
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Date: August 20, 1856
This receipt from John P. Lovell, a manufacturer and dealer of guns and gun materials, is to Reverend Thomas W. Higginson, an ardent Northern abolitionist. Higginson was an agent for…
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Date: August 15, 1856
This letter was written by Martin Stowell from Lexington, Kansas Territory. He describes his journey to Kansas Territory and the movements of his emigrant train, of which he was elected…
