Resolution of the Council of Wells

Resolution of the Council of Wells

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Council of Wells

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Entry 177: Foreign Messages on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), 356.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 466.

Town Hall, Wells, May 1, 1865.

Third quarterly meeting of the council. Moved by Dr. Purnell, seconded by Mr. Welsh, and

Resolved, That the council has heard with horror and indignation of the atrocious outrages which have unhappily deprived the United States of America of their President, and threaten a similar calamity in the death of his Secretary of State, and they take the earliest opportunity, in the name of the municipality which they represent, of recording their detestation of these outrages, and of expressing their regret at the loss which the American people have sustained, and of sympathy in the calamities which have thus befallen them.

Extracted from the minute book of the proceedings of the council of Wells.

W. J. S. FOSTER,
Town Clerk.

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