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Date: October 30, 1856
This Kansas Central Committee receipt book was one of several in which the committee recorded the various monies, provisions, clothing, etc., that were distributed throughout the Kansas Territory. Many of…
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Date: June 15, 1857
This receipt, signed by Mary Jones of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, acknowledges a payment issued to her by James Blood of the Kansas Central Committee for “boarding and taking care of…
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Date: December 27, 1856
This receipt, signed by James M. Arthur and dated “Lawrence, December 27, 1856,” reads as follows: “Received . . . Of Kansas Central Committee six U S. Breach loading Rifles…
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Date: December 3, 1856
Thomas J. Aliff, one of the free-state prisoners held in the fall of 1856 at Lecompton, Kansas Territory, signed this $3.75 receipt to Napoleon B. Blanton for “one pair of…
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Date: August 14, 1856
Adair, writing from Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, reports on conditions in Kansas to Mrs. Hibbard, who was the president of the Woman’s Kansas Aid and Liberty Association of Chicago, Illinois. Adair…
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Date: December 18, 1856
Arny was a representative of the National Kansas Committee. In this letter, Adair inquires about various boxes and money that had been sent to the committee in Chicago to forward…
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Date: December 23, 1856
This letter by Andrew Reeder, former governor of Kansas Territory, was written from Easton, Pennsylvania, where both Reeder and Crane had lived before coming to Kansas. Reeder encloses payment for…
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Date: October 15, 1855
From Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, Samuel Adair writes that his family has been sick, and that others in the area have been ill or died. The bulk of his letter to…
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In this draft letter, Samuel Adair thanks the Ladies Circle of South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, for sending a fount, plate, and cups for use in the church in Osawatomie, Kansas…
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Date: September 19, 1854
In this draft letter, Samuel Adair writes from Hudson, Ohio, discussing his plans to meet with a “Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society” party in Chicago. Adair indicates his family consisted of…
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Date: January 25, 1858
Writing from Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, Adair identifies what relief clothing (coats, socks, etc.) he still has on hand and accounts for cash received and expenses incurred.
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Date: October 5, 1857
Whitman writes from (presumably) Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to ask Samuel Adair for his assistance in distributing remaining relief clothing before winter. He includes instructions for notifying the public of the…
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Date: July 24, 1857
Writing from Atchison, Kansas Territory, Samuel Pomeroy reports to Hyatt on matters to do with land investments and/or transactions in Atchison, Quindaro, and elsewhere. He also comments on the progress…
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Date: November 10, 1859
The U.S. government’s Kickapoo land office, over President James Buchanan’s signature, issued this printed “Pre-emption Certificate” to Jack Martin on November 10, 1859, for 180 acres in Atchison County, Kansas…
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Date: June 29, 1857
“This agreement made this 29th day of June 1857 Between Samuel C. Pomeroy of the City of Atchison Kansas Territory. . .and Theodore Hyatt of the City of New York”…
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Date: June 2, 1855
This 1855 quit-claim deed and bond documents Samuel C. Pomeroy’s purchase of property in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, including lots on Vermont, Tennessee, Rhode Island, and several other streets, from the…
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Date: January 23, 1859
William Hutchinson, writing from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to Captain James Montgomery, describes reports of an effort by John Brown to liberate a free state prisoner being held at Paris, Kansas…
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Date: November 15, 1859
Charles Griffith, an Osawatomie newspaper publisher writing from Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, writes Captain James Montgomery that he believes voting fraud has occurred in the November 8, 1859, territorial legislature election.…
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Date: January 4, 1859
Sene Campbell, writing from Fort Scott, Kansas Territory, to Captain James Montgomery, expresses her anger at Montgomery for his role in the killing of her fiance, John Little. Little was…
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Date: June 6, 1860
While in Washington, D. C., John A. Halderman followed the congressional debate regarding Kansas admission and informs the “Constitution” editors that Senator Louis T. Wigfall, a Texas firebrand, has reportedly…
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Date: December 30, 1859
Olin Thurston of Humbolt, Kansas Territory, writes John A. Halderman to comment on the past election for state offices, to thank him for “your gallant fight in behalf of the…
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Date: December 10, 1859
From Lecompton, Kansas Territory, Governor Samuel Medary writes John A. Halderman to express his disappointment with his (Medary’s) and the Democratic Party’s showing in the December 6, 1859, elections for…
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Date: November 19, 1859
In a brief note, something of a follow-up to his letter of November 1, 1859, George W. Brown writes Halderman that 150 copies of “to-days” (November 19) “Herald of Freedom”…
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Date: 1859 Feb. 25
This letter, written by O. H. Browne from Ridgeway, Shawnee County, Kan. Territory, is a call to action. Browne was convinced that he and John Adams Halderman and others were…
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Date: November 27, 1856
Unlike most of the other receipts for money or merchandise saved by James Blood for the Kansas State Central Committee, this one is on a pre-printed form and issued by…
