Maine Centennial Documentary Items
Sprague's Journal of Maine History.
Vol. VIII
Special Number, June 1920
No. 1. 
page 79

Maine Centennial Documentary Items
The following official documents are true copies of records of the State
of Maine in the office of the Secretary of State at Augusta

BOSTON, March 2, 1820.

SIR:
As several Gentlemen from the District of Maine, members of
the Legislature, were desirous that the Proclamations to observe
a day for public Fasting and Prayer, in April next, should be sent
to the several religious societies there, as formerly, they will be
forwarded to the Sheriffs of the respective Counties of the Dis-
trict. For should Congress give consent to the Separation of
Maine before that time, a distinct government will not be organ-
ized. And it is presumed, that the good people in that District
Will be disposed to unite with their brethren in this part of the
State, in fervent and humble supplications to the Almighty, for
his favor upon the various interests and concerns of the whole
ancicnt Commonwealth.

I am, with sentiments of esteem

ALDEN BRADFORD,
Secy. of Comth.

Ashur Ware, Esq.,
Secretary pro tem  
of the State of Maine
       
(c) 1998
Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs>  
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