Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 to Moses Norris, Jr., Thomas Chandler, Reuben Davis, Franklin Pierce, Nathan Felton, and Samuel Swasey, & others

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GLC#
GLC05757.09-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
7 December 1842
Author/Creator
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
Title
to Moses Norris, Jr., Thomas Chandler, Reuben Davis, Franklin Pierce, Nathan Felton, and Samuel Swasey, & others
Place Written
Concord, New Hampshire
Pagination
1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Responds to a letter from 141 Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature and citizenry (see GLC05757.08). Thanks them for their support and accepts their invitation to speak about Rhode Island's citizen's thwarted attempt to enact a new Constitution, Equal rights and suffrage. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.

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