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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

John Roberts Everett - outgoing - Everett, Robert (Robbie) (son), 1867-1869

 unspecified — Box: 2, Folder: 118
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Letters to family from John Roberts Everett (1820-1896) and his wife, Sarah Colgrove Everett (1830-1864). John and Sarah emigrated to Kansas Territory in 1854, and the letters detail the hardships of pioneer life as well as the violent and chaotic environment created by anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fighting over the territory's status. An abolitionist, John Roberts Everett was active in the Free Soil movement during his time in Kansas, and present with John Brown at the Battle of...
Dates: 1867-1869