Resolution of the Town Council of Deal

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Title

Resolution of the Town Council of Deal

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Presidents--Assassination
Condolence notes
Municipal government

Creator

Town Council of Deal

Source

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

Publisher

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Date

1865-05-06

Format

pdf

Language

eng

Identifier

RG59E177-107

Coverage

51.2167, 1.4000
Deal
United Kingdom
England

Has Version

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), 198.
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), 260.

Transcription

Deal, Kent, May 6, 1865.

Sir: At a meeting of the town council for this borough held on Wednesday, the 3d instant, the resolution hereunder written was unanimously carried, and that the same be presented through your good self to the government of the United States.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

EDWARD DREW,
Town Clerk.

Hon. C. F. Adams, &c., &c., &c.

“That this council hereby express their sincere regret at the severe loss which the people of the United States have sustained by the untimely death of President Lincoln; that they regard with the utmost horror the crime by which the President’s life was taken and sacrificed, and that on behalf and in the name of the inhabitants of this borough (Deal) they most respectfully offer the government of the United States their sincere and earnest sympathy under the dreadful calamity that has befallen them.”

Status

Complete

Percent Completed

100

Weight

20

Original Format

paper and ink
2
20.25x33 cm

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