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Burlington Tri Weekly Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa
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Over 250 emigrants from Connecticut, including families from various trades, arrived in Alton on Sunday evening via C. & M. Railroad train, heading to Kansas Territory to establish a colony and promote it as a free state. (Alton Telegraph, 19th)
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which arrived on Sunday evening, brought down over
250 emigrants, bound for the Territory of Kansas.
They are from the land of "steady habits,"
and are as fine a looking body of men as we have ever
seen. They have with them their wives and children.
All trades, professions and occupations are represented
among them, and they intend making a colony and
laying the foundation of a future city by themselves.
They are just the kind of people now wanted over the
Missouri line, and will contribute their influence to
make Kansas what we trust it will be, a free State.
[Alton Telegraph, 19th
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Alton
Event Date
Sunday Evening
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emigrants bound for kansas territory to form a colony and support it as a free state.
Event Details
Train of the C. & M. Railroad arrived on Sunday evening bringing over 250 emigrants from the land of 'steady habits' with their wives and children, representing all trades, professions, and occupations, intending to make a colony and lay the foundation of a future city.