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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08524 Author/Creator: Place Written: Paterson, New Jersey Type: Document signed Date: circa 1797 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 4.5 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

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 John Woods. Illegible signature.

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
Woods, John, 1765-?

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