Willian Harrison Bissell correspondence, 1857-1860.

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Willian Harrison Bissell correspondence, 1857-1860.

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File contains primarily incoming correspondence concerning applications, petitions, and recommendations for political jobs (i.e. Commissioner of Deeds). The correspondence also includes discussion about landowners, land patents, swamp lands, the Illinois and Michigan Canal, slavery, extraditions, the Dred Scott decision, and new militia companies. The letters usually are from private citizens, county officials, bondholders, lawyers, military officers, New York financiers, out-of-state government officials, Illinois county officials and the Illinois Secretary of State.

.25 cubic ft.

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