The convention met to consider the grievances expressed by the inhabitants of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln counties, and to draft a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts for establishing those counties as a separate state.

Includes also the text of the petition drafted, and the "List of grievances, stated by the convention held at Falmouth, January 4, 1786."

Signed: By order of the convention. William Gorham, president.

Thomas Baker Wait was the only printer active at Portland in 1786.

Text in two columns.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44952).

Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B6351

Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 44952

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800, 2456

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