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Samuel Simpson wrote to Hiram Hill from Boston, Massachusetts, requesting that Hill send the $500 he pledged to invest in a church in Kansas Territory. Simpson indicated that he needed to quickly raise $5-8,000, and could not return to the Territory without it.
Creator: Simpson, Samuel Newell
Date: February 6, 1856
Item Number: 3063
Call Number: Hiram Hill Coll. #382 Box 1 Folder 5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3063
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Manuscript - Hill, Hiram
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Religion - Places of Worship
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
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 - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Activities - Religious - Church attendance
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Hill, Hiram
People - Notable Kansans - Simpson, Samuel Newell
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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