Resolution of Board of Surveyors of Pudsey

Resolution of Board of Surveyors of Pudsey

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Board of Surveyors of Pudsey

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

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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), 318.

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), 417.

Pudsey, West Leeds, May 4, 1865.

The local Board of Surveyors for the township of Pudsey, West Leeds, in the West Riding of the county of York, at their public meeting yesterday, passed the following resolution with a deep feeling of sorrow:

Resolved, That this board desires to take this its earliest opportunity to record its utter detestation of the atrocious crime of assassination committed at Washington, in the United States of America, on the honorable the President of the United States, in consequence of which Abraham Lincoln, their noble and beloved Chief Magistrate, has lost his life.

And this meeting wishes to express its profound sympathy with the people over which he was called to preside, in the grievous and irreparable loss the nation has sustained by his death at this critical period of their country’s history.

Signed on behalf of the meeting:

BENJAMIN TROUGHTON,
 Chairman.

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