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This cloth bound journal is identified as "Dr. Charles Robinson Account Book, 1856-1866." It contains only territorial entries for the years of 1856 and 1857. These entries include the following: S. W. Simpson to Joel Walker draft to purchase land for $500 and notes receivable to sell livestock to Thaddeus Hyatt . The understanding being that Hyatt shall not receive his certificate for shares note until he has placed upon the Kaw River a steamboat of 40 tons buthen,valued at $5000., and suitable to navigate that river.
Creator: Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Date: December 1856 - April 1857
Item Number: 1377
Call Number: Charles and Sara Robinson Coll. No. 488, Box 24, Volume 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1377
Collections - Manuscript - Robinson, Charles and Sara
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Book - Account
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Business records
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