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Rebecca Wakefield, writing from Milan, Ohio, to the New England Emigrant Aid Company, stated that her husband had settled in Kansas in May 1855, but had gotten sick and was now unable to pay for she and her three children to join him. She sought assistance from the company to finance her trip to Kansas.
Creator: Wakefield, Rebecca
Date: September 15, 1855
Item Number: 1802
Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company, Manuscript Coll. No. 624, Box 1, Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1802
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Home and Family - Children
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Children
People - Women
Places - Other States - Ohio
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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