
<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>Certificate, Declaration of Intention</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator)</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Robert L. Gilbert, a 21-year-old Englishman, had just finished his journey to the United States when he renounced his allegiance to the Queen of England by signing this Declaration of Intention.  Gilbert would continue west into Kansas Territory, where he eventually settled nine miles north of Lawrence in late 1855.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101586). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement&gt;Specific Settlements&gt;Lawrence</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1855-10-23</dc:date>
  <dc:type>StillImage</dc:type>
  <dc:format>electronic</dc:format>
  <dc:format>image/tiff</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>ku-kansascollection:2747</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2747</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>aspace_7d2fc061c7ea6e06238471f15b82e830</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Robert L. Gilbert papers--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0204778161--RH MS P238</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>This work is free of known copyright restrictions.</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>