An Address to the People of Maine from the Convention Delegates.
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Assembled at Portland. Portland [ME]: F. Douglas, printer, [1819]. After three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure, Massachusetts Governor John Brooks signed the Maine’s separation bill on June 19, and on July 26, Maine citizens voted it with a vote of 17,091 to 7,132 in its favor. The District of Maine was now officially independent from Massachusetts, and the only thing standing in its way from full statehood status was a vote in Washington to admit it into the Union.