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Thomas H. Webb, secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, wrote from Boston, Massachusetts to Martin F. Conway, general agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas Territory. Webb provided Conway with a detailed description of the property owned by the company in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. Webb was quite critical of Charles Branscomb's, the company's previous general agent, administration of company property in the town.
Creator: Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866
Date: April 30, 1858
Item Number: 2156
Call Number: New England Emig. Aid Co. Coll. #624 Box 2 Fldr 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2156
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Branscomb, Charles Henry
People - Notable Kansans - Conway, Martin Franklin, 1827-1882
People - Notable People - Webb, Thomas Hopkins, 1801-1866
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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