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At a meeting of a number of gentlemen from various parts of the district of Maine holden at the court house in Portland, October 18th, 1793, in consequence of a printed notification in the words following, viz. "Notice. As the time of revising the constitution of this commonwealth is fast approaching, and as it seems the general opinion that a separation of Maine must then take place; it is earnestly requested that as many gentlemen as conveniently can, will attend at the court house to morrow evening, at six o'clock, to consider and adopt such measures as shall appear most expedient to effect the abovementioned important object. Thursday, October 17th, 1793." The Honorable Peleg Wadsworth, Esquire, was chosen chairman, and Samuel Freeman, Esquire, clerk. ... Portland, October 21st, 1793. Gentlemen, ... we do hereby request that you would call a meeting for the choice of delegates to form a convention ..
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[Portland, Me. : s.n., 1793]
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The Invitation
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[Boston?] : January 6, 1755.
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The Invitation
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[Boston? : s.n.], January 6, 1755.
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Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or, Political essays published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies
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Adams, John, 1735-1826
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Boston : Hews & Goss, 1819.
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Massachusettensis
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Leonard, Daniel, 1740-1829
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[Boston : Printed by Mills and Hicks, 1775]
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The origin of the American contest with Great-Britain, or The present political state of the Massachusetts-Bay, in general, and the town of Boston in particular. Exhibiting the rise and progress of the disordered state of that country, in a series of weekly essays, published at Boston, under the signature of Massachusettensis, a native of New-England
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Leonard, Daniel, 1740-1829
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New-York: : Printed by James Rivington,, 1775.
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At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Newbury-Port, by law qualified to vote in town affairs, held August 22d, 1774, at 4 o'clock, P. M.
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Newburyport (Mass.)
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LLMC Digital Collections
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Resolved, that the secretary of this Commonwealth be directed to cause to be printed two thousand copies of the report of the committee on the subject of the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts proper
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Massachusetts
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Proceedings in Council of the Province of Massachusetts Bay : extracted from documents in Her Majesty's State Paper Office, London
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Massachusetts. Council
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At the town-house in Boston: April 18th. 1689. Sir, Our selves as well as many others the inhabitants of this town and place adjacent ... judge it necessary that you forthwith surrender, and deliver up the government ... promising all security from violence to your self ..
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Boston. : Printed by S. Green., 1689.
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Making Maine : Statehood and the War of 1812
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Smith, Joshua M.
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts, [2022]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
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Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or, Political essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies
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Adams, John, 1735-1826
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HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated
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The loyalists of America and their times from 1620 to 1816
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Ryerson, Egerton, 1803-1882
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Toronto : W. Briggs, 1880.
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In Provincial Congress, Watertown, April 30, 1775. Whereas an agreement has been made between General Gage and the inhabitants of the town of Boston, for the removal of persons ... as may be so disposed ... Resolved, that any of the inhabitants of this colony, who may incline to go into the town of Boston ... have toleration for that purpose ..
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Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
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[Watertown, Mass. : Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1775]
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In the House of Representatives, October 14, 1775. Ordered, that Col. Freeman, Col. Orne, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Gerry, be a committee to make suitable provision and entertainment for the committee expected from the Honorable Continental Congress ..
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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
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[Watertown, Mass. : Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1775]
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Seasonable motives. To our duty and allegiance,
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Byfield, Nathanael, 1653-1733
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Philadelphia. : Printed by Will. Bradford., Anno 1689.
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An address delivered in the Old South Meeting-house in Boston, November 27, 1895, before the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in commemoration of the six hundredth anniversary of the first summoning of citizens and burgesses to the Parliament of England, wherein the history of the House of Commons is sketched and a comparison made of the development of the legislatures of Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., 1831-1914
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Boston : Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1897.
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Civil state compared to rivers, all under God's controul, and what people have to do when administration is grievous. In a discourse delivered in Sutton, 2d Parish, January 17, 1773. Being the day preceeding the town meeting, which then stood adjourned to consider and act upon the letter, &. from Boston. : Published at the desire of many of the hearers
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Chaplin, Ebenezer, 1733-1822
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Boston: : Printed and sold by John Boyles in Marlborough-Street., MDCCXCCIII. [1773]
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An account of the late revolution in New-England together with the declaration of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the country adjacent, April 18. 1689
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Byfield, Nathanael, 1653-1733
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London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell, 1689.
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An address before the members of the Taunton Lyceum delivered July 4, 1831
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Baylies, Francis, 1783-1852
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Boston : J.H. Eastburn, 1831.
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The case of Nathaniel Jennison for attempting to hold a Negro as a slave in Massachusetts in 1781
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Cushing, William, 1732-1810
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Boston : Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.
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County of Essex, colony of Massachusetts-Bay. As the connexion between Great-Britain and this continent is growing every day more and more loose and uncertain ... as we may soon be obliged to take up independency for ourselves ..
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Essex County (Mass.)
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[Salem, Mass. : Printed by Ezekiel Russell, 1776]
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In Provincial Congress, Watertown, April 30, 1775. Whereas an agreement has been made between General Gage and the inhabitants of the town of Boston, for the removal of persons ... as may be so disposed ... Resolved, that any of the inhabitants of this colony, who may incline to go into the town of Boston ... have toleration for that purpose ..
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Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
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[Watertown, Mass. : Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1775]
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The speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay. At a session begun and held on the sixth of January, 1773. : With the answers of His Majesty's Council and the House of Representatives respectively. : (Publish'd by order of the House.)
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Massachusetts. Governor (1771-1774 : Hutchinson)
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Boston; New-England: : Printed by Edes and Gill, printers to the Honorable House of Representatives., M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]
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To the farmers & mechanics, voters of Groton. Importance of a new county. You are called upon to vote at the polls on Monday next, the 17th inst. at 2 o'clock p.m., on the subject of the formation of a new county, to embrace portions of Worcester and Middlesex counties. A majority of the legal voters in Groton, have already petitioned the legislature in favor of this important measure. ..
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[Groton, Mass. : s.n., 1851]
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