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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine
     The undersigned Citizens of Dixfield, Mexico + vicinity in the County of
Oxford Respectfully pray your honorable body, to adopt resolutions declaring:
     1. That Congress has the constitutional Power to abolish slavery and the slave 
  trade, in the District of Columbia.
     2. That it has the constitutional power to abolish therein the several Territories 
  of the Union, where they exist.
     3.That it has the constitutional power to prohibit the slave trade between the 
  several States of the Union.
     4. That, in regard to all these particulars, Congress ought immediately to 
  exercise that power.
We also pray your honorable body, to send a copy of said resolutions to each of 
  the Senators and Representatives of this State in
Congress, to be by them laid before that body;--to the Governors of the several 
  States, to be by them laid before their respective
legislatures; and to the President of the United States.

     We further pray your honorable body, to instruct the Senators, and request the 
  Representatives, of this State, in Congress, to use
their utmost influence, for the immediate abolition of slavery and the slave trade in 
  the District of Columbia, and in those Territories
of the Union where they exist;--and also for the immediate prohibition of the slave 
  trade between the several States.

[2 columns of signatures]
Henry Furwell                                           Phebe Ludden Penth
Wm V. Jandeau                                        Lydia S Seudden
Jos S Wheeler                                          Laurinia Brown
Joseph Eustis[name lined out]                 Sluxis Burnham
Thebe C Wheeler                                     
Mary G Chesley                                       Samuel Burgess
Lary S Wheeler                                        William Brock
Amos Gardner                                         Mary Brock
Leonard [?name]                                     Mary Edwards
Oliver Y, Fanell                                        Deborah Brirks
Bela Townsend                                        Mariah Gardiner
F P Butterfield                                         Jeibey Delano Jr
F P Butterfield                                         Jane Delano
Abram Peterian                                       Sarah L. Ludden
Mary J. Gardner                                      Catherine C. Jordan
Rufus Jefferds                                         Parker Gagnes
Susan Jefferds                                        Harry W Leithman'
                                                                Joseph Lufkin
Nancy F. Jefferds                                    Joseph Ricker
                                                               John G Ricker
Sopronia White                                       Jurel R Towle
Eustis W Wheeler                                   Jefferson Hall
Joseph Wheeler
Levi Ludden Pence                                 Tyler Kidder
Lydia Ludden                                          John Kidder
Wm Worcester                                        Laurisa Morrow
Jamy Worcester                                     Sarah B. Eustis
Naomi Worcester                                   Emily P. Clark
Mary A Worcester                                  Elisabeth L. Porter
Sarah J Worcester
John B Worcester
N.B. The above names are from Dixfield with the ex
ception of 8 or 10 from Paris + Rumford -- 56 in number
    Those below are all from Mexico -- 64--

Luthren Stockwell
Joseph Eustis                                       Esther Stockwell
Geo Wessilson                                     Catherine Brown
Wm H WhitmanHylon Walton               Melinda Baker
Otis Baker                                            Mary M Walton
Gommer Jenison                                  Eliza F Jenison
Molly Kimball                                        Eliza Howard
John Kimball                                        A. Kimball
Blanhorse[?] Kimball                           Hannah Kimball
Henry F Dungin                                   Hannah W Kimball
Haines Eastman                                  Mary Kimball
Bind Edmund
Hamiey[?] Wait                                    Lydia Heath
Elisson Edmunds                                Alis Edmunds
Hiram Edmunds
Horatio M Wait                                    Lydia Edmunds
Darius Mitchel                                     Lucy W Wait
George Eastman                                Abigail Porter
Daniel Carter                                      Hannah R Porter
Jacob Kidder
Aaron Clark                                        Lucy O Porter
John W Kimball                                  Sabrina Kidder
John Goodridge                                 Sarah L Gleason
William M Hull                                    Prath S Brown
Ebenezer Doren his mark +               Emily F Gleason
Jojhn G Barnard
Stephen Barnatrd                               Priscilla Reed
Ebenezer Harlow                               Lucy Lufkin
Ephraim Richards                              Jane Barnard
Subrin[?] King                                   Deborah Harlow
Joel Wait                                           Hannah Richards
                                                         Temperance King
Benjamin Leavitt                               Sarah Eustis
Jerathameel[?] Hawkes                    Betsey Leavitt
Gilbert Wait