Letters 1842-1843, Providence, to Silas Peirce and Company, Boston.

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Letters 1842-1843, Providence, to Silas Peirce and Company, Boston.

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Includes the following letters signed, "Young and Bulloch": [1] ALS, 1842, May 6; encloses repayment of loan; orders nuts wholesale; mentions Thomas Wilson Dorr. [2] ALS, 1842, May 19; orders figs and nuts and mentions Dorr War activities in Providence. [3] ALS, 1843, October 31; wholesale order for raisins; mentions Thomas Wilson Dorr.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

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Thomas Wilson Dorr, is well known as the leader of the Dorr Rebellion. A Providence lawyer, Dorr had become the leader of the Law and Order Party that had a platform of suffrage reform. At the time, Rhode Island was still operating under the colonial charter of 1663, which stated that only landowners had the right to vote. Dorr's party sought a more democratic constitution which would give voting power to the landless. The party held a convention and adopted a "People's Constitution,...

Young and Bulloch, Providence.

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Silas Peirce and Company, Boston,

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