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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine

    The undersigned Inhabitants of Turner County of Oxford 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.

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Gentlemen's Names Heinrick Bauer Ladies Names

                                                 Lynas Wendling                        

Allen Greely Josiah Wnedling Eunice T. S. Greely John Turner Lewis French Pensir Thayer Charles French John Dresser Persis Thayer Junier Hant Brigg John Eibell Abigail Talbot Jr. William Barrell Sabastian Eibell Abigail Talbot Jona. B. Barrell Philena Hathaway Chandler Bradford Sr Herman Storch Esther Talbot Edward S Reynolds Ichabod Leevitt Lurana Barrell Loring Copeland Philip True Lydia Talbot

                                                                                          Lian Waterman

Eli Hathaway Lois Cary Azor Barrell Mary Ann Conant William Cary Clara Cary Justin Conant Temperance Cary Esau Cary Jr Huldah Barrell Salmon Cary Nabby Barrell Thos G Newhall Alma Cary G, H, Newhall Nuldah Cary Daniel Cary Phebe Briggs Elvira Bradford Wm Bradford Betsey Briggs Susan Dresser

                                               Josephine M Briggs          Martha Dresser

Orsen Whitman Phebe Briggs Jr. Sarah Dresser Isaac W Talbot Asenath M. Seasitt Nancy French Emery Talbot Cynthia Newhall Hannah French Danial Dresser Sarah French Suthor Cary Juliaann French Elijah H. Dresser Salma Wendling Lynus Dresser Magdalena Wendling Elijah Dresser Jane Wood Ignas Wendling