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The first page of this four-page document lists five items for which Samuel L. Adair requested payment ($21.25) from the Kansas State Central Committee. These items included provisions, medicine, the "balance yet unpaid of money advanced to pay lawyers fees for prisoners at Tecumsee in June last," and the "bill paid for lumber and nails for coffin of Frederick Brown & David Garrison," two of the men killed during the battle of Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, on August 30, 1856. The accompanying letter justified the requested payment.
Creator: Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898
Date: November 7, 1856
Item Number: 90170
Call Number: James Blood # 281 Box 1 Folder 10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90170
Collections - Manuscript - Blood, James
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Home and Family - Daily life
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898
People - Notable Kansans - Brown, Frederick
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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