Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Kansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8: 1939, (Kansas Historical Collections, Vol; XXV)
Everett,3 with their two small sons,4 migrated to Kansas terri tory from Steuben township, Oneida county, New York, in the spring Of 1855 and settled in the vicinity Of Osawatomie, present Miami county. The letters here reproduced were written during the period 1855-1864, with the exception Of two written by John Everett in October, 1854, while on a preliminary visit to the territory to select a location. They offer an unusual picture Of a pioneer family struggling against the hazards of the frontier, the vagaries Of nature, and political turmoil.
John Everett's interest in reform followed closely that Of his father, Robert Everett, a Welsh Congregational minister and leader among his people 'in this country.5 The latter had revised and published in 1854 a Welsh translation Of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and John Everett traveled among the Welsh settlements in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania selling this and other books before his re moval to Kansas. Sarah Everett was likewise interested in the Antislavery cause, and she and her husband abandoned a plan to migrate to Minnesota in order to lend their aid in making Kansas a free state. Their sincerity of purpose is manifest in their letters.
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