To The Honourable The House Of Commons Of Great Britain In Parliament Assembled The Humble

by Maine

$4,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A project for colonizing Maine in 1715. One of only two surviving copies. A rare, early petition relating to British settlement in the eastern part of present-day Maine. The authors refer to petitioning his Majesty in Council, on the 6th Day of December last, for having a Colony settled between New England and Nova Scotia with over one thousand disbanded men and to be funded with the proceeds of a proposed coinage operation. The only copy of this document listed by OCLC

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