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Tucker, a twenty-three year old printer writing from Taunton, Massachusetts, to Edward Everett Hale, volunteered to go to Kansas as part of the "Emigration Association" about which he had heard rumors. Hale later became a leader of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company that was chartered in April 1854.
Creator: Tucker, Alden G.
Date: January 20, 1854
Item Number: 1762
Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company, Manuscript Coll. No 624, Box 1, Folder 3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1762
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable People - Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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