Charles Robinson, a Free-Stater and one of the early leaders of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, takes office as the first governor of the new State of Kansas.
Sara Robinson, an abolitionist associated with the New England Emigrant Aid Company and wife of Dr. Charles Robinson, writes Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life, a book that describes the early violence of the Bleeding Kansas era.
Charles Robinson, an ardent Free-Stater associated with the New England Emigrant Aid Company, is named Kansas territorial governor by the illegitimate Topeka legislature.
Free-Staters Dr. Charles Robinson and Charles Branscomb, both members of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, help found the town of Lawrence, Kansas.
A small group of migrants organized by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company arrive in Kansas Territory and establish a settlement at what will become Lawrence, Kansas.
Missourians from Weston, Missouri, and some residents of Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas Territory, form the Leavenworth Town Company and found the first official city in Kansas.
As a response to the popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society is founded by Eli Thayer and other antislavery advocates to help Free-Staters settle in Kansas Territory.
