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Richard Mendenhall was a missionary at the Shawnee Friends Mission in the 1840s. He returned to Indiana for a time but moved back to Kansas Territory in the fall of 1855. He was in Kansas during the territorial era and wrote Wattles describing an attact on the Friends Mission on August 20, 1856 by proslavery forces. He indicated that they were told to leave or the mission would be burned. However, Mendenhall wrote that David Atchison and other proslavery supporters asked that the Friends be left out of the violence. Mendenhall also described an attempt to form a settlement by men from Georgia about 3 miles from Osawatomie. He wrote that they were friendly at first but they later committed depredations. In response, about 100 free state men ran them off, took $500 in clothing and provisions, and burned a fort they had built. Mendenhall believed that the Battle of Osawatomie was a response to this.
Creator: Mendenhall, Richard
Date: January 19, 1857
Item Number: 3773
Call Number: History Indians Shawnee Box 4 XXII A
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3773
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion - Ministers
Collections - Manuscript
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Friends (Quakers)
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians - Missions
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Wattles, Augustus
People - Notable People - Atchison, David Rice, 1807-1886
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Lykins (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Other States - Georgia
Places - Other States - Indiana
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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