An Act relating to separating Maine from Massachusetts...

Item # 673463

June 12, 1819

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, June 12, 1819 Much of the front page is: "AN ACT Relating to the Separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper & forming the Same into a Separate and Independent State", carrying over to page 2. Maine would become a separate state in 1820.
The back page has a very early illustrated advertisement for fire engines.
Four pages, good condition.