"To William Gorham, Esq., Clerk of the Proprietors of the Common & Undivided Land in the Town of Gorham..." requesting that several articles be placed on the agenda for a town meeting in November. Signed at conclusion by Step[hen] Longfellow (and at least partly in his hand), Prince Davis, William McLellan and with 4 other illegible signatures.
Single sheet, 22 x 17 cm., approx. 160 words. Docketed on verso, "Application for a Prop. Meeting to be held 25 Nov. 1781." Sheet a little browned, some manuscript corrections, old fold lines, tipped onto cardboard. Gorham and Longfellow were Gorham selectmen in 1781. The first article here requests that..... More