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James Griffing wrote from Indianapolis, Indiana, to his fiancee, J. Augusta Goodrich, in Owego, New York. Griffing, a Methodist minister, discussed his plans to go to "Nebraska." He stated that there had been reports of Indian depredations in Kansas Territory, and commented that "encroachments" of whites upon Indian lands would lead either to greater violence or to the Indians disappearing "noiselessly before the consuming avarice of the white man."
Creator: Griffing, James S. (James Sayre), 1822-1882
Date: September 1854
Item Number: 6983
Call Number: James Sayre Griffing Coll. #364 Box 1 Folder 4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 6983
Collections - Manuscript - Griffing, James Sayre
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians - Indian lands
Places - Other States - Indiana
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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