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A horrible plot discovered!! [anti-Dorr]

1842/05/14

Warning that Dorr is soliciting men in New York to bring violence to Rhode Island. With manuscript note.

GLC07248.01

Vinton's address on ... Newport artillery

1842/05/19

Thanking God for quick suppression of insurrection. (Losses affecting text.)

GLC07248.02

Proclamation by His Excellency Samuel Ward King [Dorr as fugitive]

1842/06/29

King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851

Offering $1,000 reward for the "delivery of the fugitive traitor Thomas Wilson Dorr"

GLC07249.01

An Act.... [declaring martial law]

1842/06

calling for martial law, with clipped signature "Thomas Wilson Dorr"

GLC07249.02

Proclamation. By His Excellency Samuel Ward King [RI Constitution adopted]

1843/01/23

King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851

Announcing constitution adopted by a majority of qualified electors.

GLC07250