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1. John Brown family letters : Kansas
- Creator:
- Brown family
Brown, Frederick, b. 1830
Brown, Jason, 1823-1912
Brown, Wealthy - Published / Created:
- 1855-1856
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1671 B8131
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Four ALS. In a letter of June 12, 1855 Wealthy writes from Brownsville to her sister-in-law Ruth Thompson. She tells of the trip from Ohio to Kansas and of the cholera outbreak onboard the steamer "New Lucy". She comments on the other passengers, who were mainly slaveholders and their wives. Wealthy goes on to describe their claims, extols the virtues of the Kansas climate and countryside, and urges Ruth and Henry Thompson to join them. In a letter from Osawatomie dated February 10, 1856, Frederick Brown writes of the events of January 15th that culminated in the murder of Mr. E. P. Brown [R. P. Brown?] by a group of proslavery men. and In the first of two letters to family and friends, Jason Brown writes from Osawatomie on June 28, 1856. He tells of answering the call to defend the city of Lawrence and of receiving word of the taking of Lawrence and of the murder of five proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek. He describes at length his and John Jr.'s imprisonment and their forced march to Lecompton and then Tecumseh. He briefly describes the skirmish at Hickory Point in which Salmon Brown and Henry Thompson were wounded. In Jason's letter of August 13, 1856 he tells of his attempts to protect the claims from looting and burning and reports that Missourians are said to be gathering to attack Osawatomie.
- Description:
- Five of abolitionist John Brown's sons moved to Kansas in 1855. The unmarried sons, Owen, Salmon, and Frederick went first and were followed by John Jr. and Jason and their families later that spring. The Browns staked claims near Pottawatomie and were joined by their father and other family members in October. John Jr. became active in Free-State politics, served as a delegate to the Topeka Legislature, and was elected captain of the newly formed Pottawatomie Rifle Company. In May 1865 John Jr. and Jason set off with the Pottawatomie Rifles to defend Lawrence but were turned back. In the wake of the Pottawatomie Massacre, Jason and John Brown, Jr. were arrested and imprisoned. Frederick Brown was shot and killed shortly before the burning of Osawatomie in August 1865. The Browns left Kansas that fall. and Purchased from King V. Hostick on the William Robertson Coe fund, 1965.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Kansas--History--1854-1861, Kansas--Politics and government--1854-1861, and Pottawatomie County (Kan.)
- Subject (Name):
- Brown family, Brown, Frederick, b. 1830, Brown, Jason, 1823-1912, Brown, John, 1800-1859, Brown, John, 1821-1895, Brown, Wealthy, and Pottawatomie Rifles
- Subject (Topic):
- Abolitionists--United States, Antislavery movements--United States, Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas, Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories, and Women pioneers--Kansas
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Brown family letters : Kansas
2. Letter fragments, Portrait
- Creator:
- Darrach, Bartow, 1831-1863
- Published / Created:
- 1843 and n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1821
- Collection Title:
- Bartow Darrach letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 115 ALS written by Bartow Darrach while living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kentucky; and Kansas Territory; most to his parents, James and Helena White Darrach, New York; his brother, William Bradford Darrach; and other family members in the East. Five letters are dated at Philadelphia, 1852-1853, and relate to the completion of Darrach's medical studies and his application to the United States Navy for an appointment as a medical officer. Approximately half of the letters are dated at Eddyville, Kentucky, 1853-1855, and concern Darrach's work in establishing a medical practice there. and Darrach moved to Kansas Territory in 1855; ca. fifty letters dated at Osawatomie, 1855-1856, contain a detailed narrative of the lives of settlers and events of the Kansas border war, including discussion of elections and constitutional conventions; events in Lawrence and other fighting between free soil and slavery advocates; and the killings at Pottawatomie by John Brown and the subsequent sack of Osawatomie. The letters are accompanied by an ink and watercolor portrait, 1843.
- Description:
- Gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1971.
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, John, 1800-1859, Darrach family, Darrach, Helena White, Darrach, James, 1806-1889, and Darrach, William Bradford, 1836-1909
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life and Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter fragments, Portrait
3. To the old line Democrats!
- Creator:
- Laborer
- Published / Created:
- 1856?]
- Call Number:
- BrSides 2013 25
- Image Count:
- 8
- Description:
- Caption title. and Signed at end: Laborer. San Francisco, 10th October, 1856.
- Publisher:
- s.n.,
- Subject (Topic):
- Campaign literature, 1856--Republican and Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > To the old line Democrats!
