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This receipt, which provides a detailed listing of revolvers, knives, cartridges, and other weapons and ammunition, declared that these weapons were "received of Chas. Robinson." The following page is a memorandum by Preston Plumb, who writes that he received the weapons and ammunition listed on the receipt in Iowa City, Iowa "on or about the 4th of September 1856." The weapons were to be delivered to J. M. Winchell in Kansas but were to be used for the "defense of Kanzas." Several hundred weapons were involved.
Creator: Miller, Joseph C.
Date: September 27, 1856
Item Number: 11364
Call Number: Franklin Loomis Crane Coll. #320 Box 2 Volume 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 11364
Collections - Manuscript - Crane, Franklin Loomis
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Military - Weapons - Ammunition
Military - Weapons - Firearms - Rifles
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Memorandum
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Receipt
People - Notable Kansans - Plumb, Preston B., 1837-1891
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Iowa
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Memoranda
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/11364
