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MAINE -- [John GARDINER]. An Address To the Numer

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[Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1791]. 3 pp., bifolium (340 x 210 mm). Signed in print "A number of our Representatives." Unbound. Condition: separations at folds, some foxing and staining. a rare and early call for separation. This handbill begins: "The time draweth nigh, when ye myst be, as the God of Nature, intended ye should be, a Free, Soverign and Independent State." Authorship has been recently ascribed to John Gardiner (1737-1793) a lawyer and reformer and representative to the Massachusetts General Court. See Milford, The Gardiner's of Massachusetts, p. 165. Evans 23105; Williamson 139.

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