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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1841 -
The Pittsfield Sun
Massachusetts
January 7, 1841
A DISTRESSING CASE - A Mrs. Ann Oroyd advertises in the St.
Louis Bulletin for information of her husband, who had
preceded her to Iowa Territory. The advertisement contains the
awful intelligence that their seven children were scalded to
death on board the steamboat Persian and herself
considerably injured.
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]
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THE COLORED
AMERICAN
New York, New York
April 3, 1841
IOWA. - This infant territory, unsurpassed in the richness of its
soil, and its mineral wealth, now contains about 50,000 souls,
and is fast filling up with enterprising citizens. We recommend
to our people, who are at all possessed with the emigration
spirit, and have money laid by, to go there and buy them a farm.
Land, though rich, is but $1.25 per acre; besides, they have the
privilege in common with others, of taking up land for nothing
and cultivating it, and then the first claim to purchase the same
when it shall be brought into market. The climate is milder than
our own, and just as healthy for colored people as for other
citizens. There is decidedly an advantage in going now, before it
comes a State, to aid in giving a proper character and tone to
its Constitution when it shall become one, and to grow up with
all its interests and improvements.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2006]
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New Hampshire
Sentinel
June 30, 1841
MARRIED
In St. Francisville, (Missouri) Mr Hanson Hawkins of St. Louis,
to Miss Clarissa Dickey, of New Lexington (Iowa Territory).
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]
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Farmer's Cabinet
West Virginia
November 12, 1841
INDIANS IN IOWA - By the return of Mr. Crawford and other
gentlemen, from the agency of the Sioux and Foxes, on the Iowa
line, we learn that the attempt of Governor's Chambers and Doty
to treat with them for their lands within Iowa was unsuccessful.
The Indians positively refused to even entertain the propositions
for a sale, although they sere deemed liberal. A good deal of
feeling prevailed among the citizens in the vicinity, as this
refusal excludes all present hopes of enlarging the territory of
Iowa, and leaves the frontier exposed to annoyance from the
Indians, and the Indians in their turn are exposed to all the
corruptions and impositions of a frontier settlement. A company
of dragoons was left at the agency to preserve order and protect
the Indians for a time. Their annuities for two years past,
amounting to $82,000, were then paid. -- [St. Louis
Republican.]
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]