At a convention of delegates from a number of towns in the counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln, held at Falmouth, on the first Wednesday of January, 1786 ... voted, that a committee of nine be chosen to state the grievances, which the three counties ... labour under ... and also to form an estimate of the expence of a separate government ...

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