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Description
Broadside signed by residents of Pittston, Maine, arguing for the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts and suggesting that the legislature authorize a convention of delegates from all towns in the district "to declare the sense of their constituents, to frame a constitution ... and to do and transact all things ... necessary to the ... establishment of a separate and independent state."
Publication Date
1803
Keywords
Government and Law
Disciplines
Political History | United States History
Size of Collection
1 broadside, 36 x 30 cm
Manuscript Number
SpC MS 1604 sc
Recommended Citation
Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine, "Maine Statehood Broadside, 1803" (1803). Finding Aids. Number 488.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/488