
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Draft, Constitution of the Susquehanna Western Emigration Company</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator)</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>This handwritten document drafted the Constitution of the Susquehanna Western Emigration Company. The Constitution specifically lists the New York counties of Broome, Chinango, Otsego, and Delaware, naming only citizens in and around them as eligible for aid from the Company. &quot;Susquehanna&quot; refers to the Susquehanna River, whose headwaters begin in upstate New York and empty into the Chesapeake Bay.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 102105). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement&gt;Emigrant Aid Organizations&gt;Other organizations</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1854-12-07</dc:date>
  <dc:type>StillImage</dc:type>
  <dc:format>electronic</dc:format>
  <dc:format>image/tiff</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>ku-kansascollection:2344</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2344</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>aspace_8b4b194a068adbd7dd3d5659854f35e0</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>John Bayless papers--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4982935179--RH MS 133</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>This work is free of known copyright restrictions.</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>
