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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine
The undersigned Citizens of Mt Desert in the County of
Hancock 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.
Samuel Lopaus Hannah Lopaus David Clark Nancy C Clark Wm W Lopaus Catherine Millikin Wm Norwood Eliza W Lopaus John Rich Daty Rich John Galley Rhoda D Rich Stephen Norwood Margaret Rich Jonathan Norwood Lydia T Compton James K Norwood Sallay Norwood George W Norwood Hannah Galley Stephen Norwood Jr Lydia Galley John F Norwood Rachel Lopaus Jonathan Norwood Jr Sally Dusc
Sarah Wells
David Gott Etppoa[?] Dix Benj Norwood Mary M Manchester Oliver Norwood Susan B Gott C. L. Cary Esther Norwood John Billings Ursula F. Cary Benj Sawyer Rachel L. Chear Oliver Yalper Hannah D. Milliken
Ann Hunt
S. F. Milliken Comeline Dow Ebenezer Pickney Rachel Milliken A. Cummings Milliken Polly Norwood Lam C Holden Cinderrilla Seavey
Fryphosa Atherton
C M Milliken Susannah Davis Simeon Milliken Joanna Bartlett Samuel Alley Sally Bartlett Abel Bering Abraham Bartlett Rosella Bartlett David Bartlett Larenda Bartlett Christopher Bartlett Polly Bartlett Robert Bartlett James Bartlett Polly Bartlett John R Bart;ett Christopher Bartlett Louisa Bartlett Jason Manley Betsy Manley Etsa Swift Caroline E. Briggs Joseph Furbush Elizabeth Rumill Jason Billings Jr Mary K Hodgdon Barnum Rumill Ann Hobbins
Harriet R Hodgden
Ephraim Dow Susann M Obese Alex Hodgdon Sarah W Billiange Thurlow Dow Daniel D Olecan Abigail Billings Isaac Oleane Jane Billings Reuben Billings
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Stover Leach Elizabel Bartlett James Reed Margaret Atherton Ira Reed Sarah Bartlett Benjamin Robbins Parcestra Bartlett John Murphy Edith Dow Saml Norwood Rebecca Hodgdon
Mary Hent
Benj Robbins Jr Martha Reed Elisha B Hodgdon Tryphena Reed Daniel Smith James Bartlett Jr Tryphosa Reed
Lois Marshall
57 Freelove Billings
Apphia Robbins
Mary Hodgdon
Susannah Milliken
Anna Ober
Mary B Walls
Margaret B Freeman
Sophia Heath
Dorcas J Freeman
Mary D Gott
Judith S. Atherton
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