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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: December 12, 1855
Hiram Hill arrived in Lawrence, Kansas Territory shortly after the end of the Wakarusa War. This letter to his wife reviewed the events of the war, made mention of women’s…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: December 8, 1855 - December 9, 1855
Hiram Hill wrote from Westport, Missouri to his wife as he received new information concerning the Wakarusa War at Lawrence. Hill was frustrated by these reports, which conflicted and were…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: December 7, 1855
In a brief letter similar to the one written to his brother on the same date, Hiram Hill told his wife that he would continue to Kansas Territory. Hill was…
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Hiram Hill to brother
Date: December 9, 1855
Hiram Hill wrote from Weston, Massachusetts to his brother, describing his stagecoach journey from Richmond. Although 47 miles from Lawrence, he had not received a trustworthy update concerning the Wakarusa…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Brother
Date: December 7, 1855
Hiram Hill, a resident of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts en route to Kansas City and ultimately to Lawrence, Kansas Territory, wrote from Richmond, Missouri to his brother. He relayed the murder of…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: November 31, 1855
Hiram Hill wrote from Lexi[ng]ton, Missouri to his wife in Williamsburgh, Massachusetts on his way to Lawrence, Kansas Territory. The low river had forced him and other steamboat passengers to…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: November 26, 1855
Hiram Hill, a resident of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts wrote to his wife from St. Louis, Missouri, on his way to Lawrence, Kansas Territory, where he owned property. Hill had traveled by…
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Edmund Jones to Hiram Hill, Jr., expense sheet
Date: November 8, 1855
This expense sheet, signed by Edmund Jones, was apparently written by Hiram Hill. It includes amounts received by Jones during his oversight of the construction of Hill’s house in Lawrence,…
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Samuel Newell Simpson to Hiram Hill
Date: November 20, 1855
S. N. Simpson wrote from Kansas City, Missouri to Hiram Hill in Williamsburgh, Massachusetts, where Edmund Jones had recently returned (see Hill’s letter to Jones of October 11, 1855). Simpson…
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Samuel Newell Simpson to Hiram Hill
Date: October 1, 1855
S. N. Simpson wrote concerning his attempts to collect rent from Mr. Fuller, who had not yet paid up, to Hiram Hill in Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. The undefined “outside movement” was…
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Hiram Hill to Edmund Jones
Date: October 1, 1855
Hiram Hill wrote to Edmund Jones in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, where Jones was completing construction on Hill’s new house. Hill was surprised by the amount of Jones’ expenses, and he…
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Edmund Jones to Hiram Hill
Date: September 4, 1855
Edmund Jones oversaw the building of a house in Lawrence, Kansas Territory for Hiram Hill, a resident of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. He wrote to update Hill on construction progress. Jones was…
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Samuel Newell Simpson to Hiram Hill
Date: September 4, 1855
S. N. Simpson of Lawrence, Kansas Territory wrote to Hiram Hill of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts concerning the improvement of the town and Hill’s property. He alluded to “outsiders” who had made…
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Edmund Jones to Hiram Hill
Date: August 21, 1855
Edmund Jones wrote briefly from Lawrence, Kansas Territory to Hiram Hill in Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. He referred to the security of town lots and a previously sent newspaper. Mr. Fuller, a…
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Edmund Jones to Hiram Hill
Date: July 29, 1855
Well before Hiram Hill of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts could have received Edmund Jones’ previous letter from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Jones received a bank draft from Hill. In this letter, Jones thanked…
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Edmund Jones to Hiram Hill
Date: July 26, 1855
Edmund Jones wrote to Hiram Hill, a resident of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts, to report expenses, update Hill of construction progress, and request money. At this time, S. N. Simpson had returned…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Brother
Date: May 13, 1855
After arriving in Kansas City by steamboat, Hiram Hill wrote to his brother. En route, four men had died of cholera while others continued to drink and play cards nearby.…
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Hiram Hill to Dear Wife
Date: May 7, 1855
Hiram Hill of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts wrote to his wife while traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis to Kansas City. Hill was a free soil sympathizer evidentially traveling with…
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Hiram Hill and Thaddeus L. Whitney, Articles of Agreement
Date: January 6, 1855
Thaddeus L. Whitney of Lawrence, Kansas Territory agreed to build a house in Lawrence for Hiram Hill of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. Dimensions and materials were described in detail. Construction was to…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: January 19, 1861
In Lawrence on January 19, 1861, attending the meeting of what proved to be the last territorial legislature, Ingalls wrote about everyone’s interest in happenings outside the territory: namely, congressional…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: October 7, 1860
In this rather lengthy letter from his home in Sumner, Ingalls commented on many different facets of his personal and professional life to date in Kansas Territory and about his…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: August 21, 1860
The biggest share of this 8-page letter is devoted to comments on the weather and the environment, in and around Atchison, where Ingalls now had a law practice (for a…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: April 3, 1860
Ingalls devoted much of his April 3, 1860, letter from Sumner to the territory’s agricultural prospects, which were still not particularly good: “Corn, pork, and hides” were Kansas’s only exports,…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: August 14, 1859
Back in Sumer on August 14, 1859, Ingalls wrote regarding the convention’s recently completed work and the prospects for the Wyandotte Constitution, now “before the people.” The Democrats were “taking…
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John James Ingalls to Elias T. Ingalls
Date: July 5, 1859
On the first day of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, Ingalls wrote from Wyandotte, Kansas, with observation on the city and the nature of the convention, which he considered “not a…