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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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05757.09 Author/Creator: Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 Place Written: Concord, New Hampshire Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 December 1842 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy
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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