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Date: October 22, 1856
This receipt is signed by Willard Colburn and dated “Lawrence, October 22, 1856,” for items (shirts, pants, quilts, etc.) received by the Kansas State Central Committee. In light of the…
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Date: July 25, 1856
D. A. Clayton, Jr., of Topeka, Kansas Territory, received and promises to deliver to G. W. and William Hutchinson of Lawrence $134.95 worth of articles: sugar, candles, pepper, mustard, cinnamon,…
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Date: September 23, 1858
The first meeting of the Free State Party’s territorial central committee was convened in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, on September 23, 1858. According to these minutes, the following individuals attended: James…
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Date: October 22, 1856
Dated “Lawrence, October 22, 1856,” these are apparently the minutes of the first meeting the Kansas State Central Committee’s executive committee, chaired by James M. Winchell with George S. Hillyer…
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Date: January 6, 1857
Dated “Topeka, January 6, 1857,” this document is a “report of Money & goods received and Paid out, by Treasurer.” Its initial entry is for July 24, 1856, and the…
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This is a copy of an invoice most likely created during the late fall or winter 1856-1857. Starting with five Colt Revolvers, the invoice identifies over thirty separate listings for…
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The complete title of this undated inventory is a “Catalogue of Horses, Waggons [sic], Harnesses, &, the property of the Kansas Central Committee, Lawrence. Twenty-eight different horses or “spans” of…
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Date: c. 1857
In this undated letter from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, E. R. Falley informs the Kansas Central Committee that he had lost a gun loaned to him by “Mr. Wilder” (D. W.…
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Date: September 8, 1855
This letter was written in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, to Reverend Jocelyn, who was Samuel Adair’s contact with the American Missionary Association. The first three pages deal with some disagreement over…
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Date: November 15, 1858
From Leavenworth on behalf of “two sons of the Hon. Thos Ewing of Ohio” and himself, Sherman informs Coleman & Co., “No. 88, Wall Street New York,” that the firm…
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Date: December 14, 1860
In response to a letter dated November 29, Montgomery informs Stearns that “Uncle Sam has stolen all my late corrispondence [sic]. I suppose he thinks he will find some Treason…
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Date: November 28, 1860
From Mound City, Kansas Territory, Jennison opens his letter to Stearns by acknowledging that the two men did not know each other but Jennison counts Stearns “a true friend to…
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Date: October 6, 1860
Having returned from a trip to the East (where he visited George Stearns, Horace Greeley, and others in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia), Montgomery writes from Mound City, Linn County,…
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Date: June 9, 1860
From Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Joseph Gardner describes one of the last battles of the border war between Kansas Territory and Missouri. The attack Gardner had feared came “last night between…
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Date: May 15, 1857
E. B. Whitman, located in Lawrence, was the general agent for the National Kansas Committee that was distributing relief supplies in Kansas Territory. He writes that he is sending Adair…
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Date: November 13, 1856
A list of relief materials received from the Central Committee for distribution in and around Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. The list, signed by Andrew Updegraff for S. L. Adair, identifies the…
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Date: March 19, 1858
Writing from Ogden, Kansas Territory, the authors state that they have been voted an appropriation by the Congregational Union of New York to build a church but that they had…
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Date: December 3, 1859
From his jail cell at Charles Town, Virginia, abolitionist Aaron Dwight Stevens, 1831-1860, wrote his dear friend, Jennie Dunbar, regarding his actions and prospects (“Slavery demands that we should hang…
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Date: December 1859
Parsons, “a soldier under John Brown” in Kansas, who fought in the battles of Black Jack and Osawatomie (see, Twenty-fifth Biennial Report, KSHS, 135-136), wrote this letter from Osawatomie to…
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Date: December 17, 1859
William F. Creitz of Holton, who had served under Aaron Stevens as captain of a Kansas militia company, wrote Redpath regarding “the particulars of ‘Old John Brown’s’ final departure from…
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Date: October 7, 1859
The last of three “love letters” written by Aaron D. Stevens, alias Charles Whipple, to a girl he apparently had only recently met. He desperately desired a closer relationship. It…
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Date: January 14, 1859
From near Lawrence, Jeremiah G. Anderson wrote to his brother (J. Q. Anderson) about his recent call “into the service,” whick took him to Fort Scott and into Missouri with…
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Date: October 2, 1859
From “Harpers Ferry” about two weeks before the raid that took his life, William H. Leeman wrote his mother that, although he didn’t want to worry her, he was “waring…
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Date: November 23, 1859
John Anderson, of Eddyville, Iowa, the brother of one of the Harpers Ferry raiders, Jeremiah Goldsmith Anderson, writes to Captain [John] Brown, who was in jail awaiting execution in Charlestown,…
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Date: January 3, 1859
A resident of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, and correspondent from the New York Tribune, William Hutchinson writes his wife Helen from Mapleton, northern Bourbon County, right after the first of the…
![C. Whipple [Aaron.D. Stevens] to Jenny Dunbar](https://images.kansasmemory.gov/thumb500/00044821.jpg)
