Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MAINE.) Resolution of the Massachusetts Senate in favor of a vote on Maine separation. Letterpress broadside, 13 1/4 x 8 1/2, signed in type by Governor Samuel Adams and others; worn, dampstaining and marginal water damage, tape repairs on verso. Boston: Young and Binns, 2 March 1797

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"On the petitions of Thomas Rice and others, inhabitants of the District of Maine, praying the Legislature to take such measures . . . for obtaining the sense of the People of said District upon the question of Separation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Resolved." Bristol B10003; 3 copies listed in ESTC. Provenance: from the collection of William Wheeler III.