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RARE 1790 BROADSIDE, WITH PRINTED SIGNATURE OF JOHN HANCOCK

HANCOCK, John. Resolved, that the Commonwealth be divided into eight districts. Boston: 1790.

Original printed broadside, signed in type by John Hancock, then Governor of Massachusetts, the 1790 resolution dividing the state into eight districts for electing representatives to the first United States Congress. $3000.

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RARE 1790 MASSACHUSETTS BROADSIDE, ANNOUNCING
THE FIRST DIVISION OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

MASSACHUSETTS. Resolved, that the Commonwealth be divided into eight districts. Boston, 1790.

Massachusetts congressional broadside announcing the division of the state into eight districts, “for the purpose of electing eight persons to represent the people thereof in Congress of the United States.” Docketed on the verso by the “Selectmen of Waltham.” $3000.

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"THE OLDEST FUNCTIONING WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD"

(MASSACHUSETTS) (CONSTITUTION) ADAMS, John. Constitution of the State of Massachusetts. Brookfield, 1805.

First Brookfield edition of the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, preceded by the same year's first Boston edition—"one of the great enduring documents of the American Revolution"—published together in one volume with the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, this Brookfield edition issued same year as the Boston first edition, stating: "Printed by Order of the General Court of the Common-Wealth of Massachusetts," in original boards. $950.

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