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Francis M. Serenbetz, a German immigrant and minister, wrote from Hartford, Connecticut to Edward Everett Hale, a member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company's Executive Committee. Serenbetz informed Hale that he planned to lead a group of about a dozen families of fellow Germans to Kansas to establish a "christian community." Attached to the letter is an agreement, dated February 8, 1857, outlining the communal labor and property arrangements for the proposed Kansas settlement.
Creator: Serenbetz, Francis M.
Date: March 14, 1857
Item Number: 2057
Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company, Manuscript Coll. No. 624, Box 2, Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2057
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Religion
Community Life - Town development - Collective/Utopian communities
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - European Americans - Germans
People - Notable People - Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Places - Other States - Connecticut
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/2057