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Martin Brimmer, member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company Executive Committee, wrote from Boston, Massachusetts to Martin F. Conway, general agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas Territory. Brimmer asked Conway for advice on whether the Company should start offering to sell town lots and shares on terms requiring a cash down payment and the balance paid over a period of months. Previously, the Company had required a cash payment for the entire cost of the town share or lot. Brimmer also speculated that Kansans would vote against the Lecompton Constitution in the upcoming August 1858 election.
Creator: Brimmer, Martin
Date: July 16, 1858
Item Number: 2185
Call Number: New England Emig. Aid Co. Coll. #624 Box 2 Fldr 3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2185
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Leavenworth Constitutional Convention
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Lecompton Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Elections
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable Kansans - Conway, Martin Franklin, 1827-1882
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
Places - Regions - Eastern Kansas
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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