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Gray agreed to transfer lot number 77 on the levee in Quindaro to Klaus in return for $100 in cash in six months and $1000 worth of mason work, labor, and materials for building in Quindaro. The document outlined various prices for mason work with cut sand stone corners, dust sand stone window and door caps and sills, etc. Gray was to deliver a design for the building before the memorandum was signed but the purpose of the building was not specified.
Creator: Klaus, Fredrick
Date: June 13, 1857
Item Number: 993
Call Number: Gray Coll. No. 361, Box 1, Folder Titled Correspondence 1855-79
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 993
Business and Industry - Construction
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Construction
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Masons
Collections - Manuscript - Gray, Alfred
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Construction
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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