Boston, April 15, 1857.
At a meeting of the executive committee of the State Kansas
Aid Committee of Massachusetts, held in Boston, April 11, 1857, it was
Voted, That Captain John Brown be authorized to
dispose of one hundred rifles, belonging to this committee, to such Free-State
inhabitants of Kansas as he thinks to be reliable, at a price not less than
fifteen dollars; and that he account for the same agreeably to his
instructions, for the relief of Kansas.
At the same meeting it was
Voted, That Captain John Brown be authorized to draw
on P. T. Jackson, treasurer, for five hundred dollars, if on his arrival in
Kansas he is satisfied that such sum is necessary for the relief of persons in
Kansas.
George L. Stearns,
Chairman
Massachusetts State Kansas Committee.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 385
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