Scope and Content: The Brunswick Convention met Sept. 30-Oct. 9, 1816, to consider separating the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state.  Although a Sept. 2 vote of Maine inhabitants taken along with election of convention delegates failed to produce the five-to-four pro-separation majority mandated by St 1816, c 41, convention leaders chose to regard the actual majority as sufficient to proceed with the separation process.  Petitions are remonstrances sent by Maine towns to the General Court, Oct.-Dec. 1816, protesting actions of pro-separation convention delegates.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous collection, box 17; Forms part of: Separation of Maine papers
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