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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1105 (February 13, 1750)]

February 13, 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discussion of the Pennsylvania lottery and announcement of prize amounts. Section reserved for announcing the indentured...

GLC06670.131

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1107 (February 27, 1750)]

February 27, 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Open letter from "Britannicus" to "The Fool" discussing conscience. Poem from Mrs. Jenny Hamilton to Mrs. Duck about love and marriage. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2...

GLC06670.133

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1109 (March 13, 1750)]

13 March 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Addresses by both houses of Parliament to King George II regarding his majesty's proposed peace. Includes the king's response. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4...

GLC06670.135

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1110 (March 20, 1750)]

20 March 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

GLC06670.136

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1118 (May 17, 1750)]

17 May 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Fable entitled "The Catterpillar and Butterfly" on page one. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 1 through 4. Advertisement for the sale of lottery tickets. The death of...

GLC06670.142

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1119 (May 24, 1750)] [Incomplete]

24 May 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses lottery drawing and deadlines for participation. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

GLC06670.143

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1120 (May 31, 1750)] [Incomplete]

31 May 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

GLC06670.144

to William Whipple

March 15, 1777

Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

Written by Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a colonel in New Hampshire militia to Whipple, also a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a Continental Congressman from New Hampshire. Congress, and therefore Whipple...

GLC00369

Letter signed

to unknown

30 June 1803

Thomas, Ab., fl. 1803

Thomas, possibly from the United States Department of the Navy, discusses a lottery with the unknown recipient. Transmits a lottery item, possibly a ticket (not included) and asks whether it has drawn a prize. Relates plans to travel to Baltimore...

GLC03481.01

The Boston news-letter. [No. 2036 (September 6, 1759)]

6 September 1759

Draper, John, 1702-1762

Prints a proclamation from the Governor of Massachusetts Bay. Articles detail news from London, New York, Philadelphia, and the St. Lawrence River, Quebec area. Also includes information on arrivals and departures of privateer ships, military...

GLC01450.452.03

Independent chronicle and the universal advertiser. [Vol. X, no. 483 (November 21, 1777)]

21 November 1777

Powars & Willis (Boston, Mass.), 1776-1801

Prints the transcript of part of a court case involving a Mr. Horne and Lord Mansfield. Includes a long poem, news from Philadelphia, Fishkill, New Haven, and Boston. Also includes public notices and information on the lottery.

GLC01450.452.04

Document signed

to Joseph Bullock

18 July 1780

Levy, Levy Andrew, fl. 1745-1784

Sending Bullock all the second class lottery tickets he has sold. Includes the numbers of these tickets. In regard to a dispute over lottery tickets & prizes.

GLC01450.508

Document signed

[Lottery ticket for the benefit of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures]

circa 1797

Ticket for a lottery to be held in Paterson, New Jersey, to benefit the "Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, erected by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey. -- Subject to a Deduction of 15 per Cent." Printed by...

GLC08524

Boston gazette and country journal. [No. 1262 (November 2, 1778)]

2 November 1778

Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803

Discusses a book on government, liberty, and tyranny by pastor Isaac Backus. Contains Articles of Capitulation concerning Francois Claude Amour (the Marquis de Bouille). Mentions General Horatio Gates's arrival in Hartford, Connecticut. Refers to...

GLC08790

to Oliver Fowler

February 26, 1774

Mercer, Hugh, fl. 1725-1777

Discusses the sale of several lots of land by lottery.

GLC02497.12

re: lottery

1809/10/18

Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.16

to James Dundas

20 November 1781

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Discusses some family news, commenting on his separation from his wife. Thanks James for his work on a seal (also discusses in GLC025490.16), but asks him not to send it until after the lottery, fearing it might be stolen. Comments on the status of...

GLC02549.18

to Owen and all [incomplete]

1909/01/09

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Owen's Aunts met him after his trip on the S.S. Republic. He asks about family and the property. He will write to Nancy soon. Dancing, musical entertainment, skating rinks, horse races, and trotting on the ice have become popular. The big Alaska...

GLC05245.43

to Mr. French

Febraury 23, 1778

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

Hillegas inquires, on behalf of a Mr. Clarkson, about the allowance available to those who sell lottery tickets for the United States lottery established to help fund the Revolutionary War. Accompanied a lottery ticket (see GLC01412.23.01).

GLC01412.23.02

to Henry Knox

March 27, 1791

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Offers his assistance in appointing officers to the army. States, "I believe but few are so well acquainted with the late Officers of the American Army as I am, and I do assure you, I should have been highly gratified to have assisted you in the...

GLC02437.04892

Manuscript

"Number of Lottery Tickets given to the Childeren"+7 lottery tickets

1790/07/22

With 7 typed lottery tickets signed by Abraham Herring. The tickets state: "The Possessor of this TICKET shall be entitled to such Prize as shall be drawn to this Number in the Lottery, agreeable to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New-York...

GLC03107.03675

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1111 (March 27, 1750)]

March 27, 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. News of a book burning in Vienna due to the unfavorable portrayal of Bohemian history and the empress queen herself. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4....

GLC06670.137