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Thomas Webb, Secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, wrote a letter of introduction for Isaac Goodnow to Samuel Pomeroy, seeking protection for Goodnow and his traveling party when they would arrive in Kansas Territory. Webb justified the request to Pomeroy, proclaiming that "Mr. G is with us in heart and hand. . .and will battle manfully for Liberty."
Creator: Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866
Date: March 6, 1855
Item Number: 3647
Call Number: Isaac Goodnow Coll. #357 Box 1 Folder 32
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3647
Collections - Manuscript - Goodnow, Isaac
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
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 - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894
People - Notable Kansans - Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
People - Notable People - Webb, Thomas Hopkins, 1801-1866
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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