Raynors HCA 2019-01
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Pledge and original membership roll of the Loyal League of Providence, Manuscript Document Signed, with 161 signatures, ca. January 1863, [Providence, RI]. 2 pp., 7-¾” x 22-¼”. In large part, ““We, the members of the Loyal League, do hereby pledge ourselves, by words and acts, whenever practicable, to use our influence in support of the Government in all its measures for the suppression of the present unholy rebellion; and we will use our influence to discountenance and oppose all efforts in opposition to the Government and the Union.” The likely author of the pledge and first signer on the right column was Granville Budlong (1844-1909). The first signer in the left column was Lewis G. Janes (1844-1901), son of prominent abolitionist Alphonso Janes. Other signers included Arthur Lincoln, son of a professor at Brown University; and William E. Cushing (1844-1880), who became an architect and designed the city’s baseball stadium in 1878. At least two signers, Frederick Metcalf and Eugene F. Granger, were killed later in the war while serving in the military. Metcalf was only seventeen when he died of disease in South Carolina in 1864 after a year in the service. Granger, the son of a Baptist minister, joined a New Hampshire regiment and died in a Confederate prison in North Carolina. His younger brother Edward V. Granger also signed this roll. Other signers were the sons of merchants, railroad agents, carpenters, tin platers, and masons in Providence. Several went on to graduate from Brown University in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
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