. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. ith the money received forone hogshead of rum ! The lot in Front, below Pine, whereon fouror five large houses stood, called Barclays row, was sold for »^60only of real value. Many specimens of the colonial bills, now rarely seen, may be in-spected in my books of MS. Annals, both in the City Library andwith the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. All of us have heard so much of
. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. ith the money received forone hogshead of rum ! The lot in Front, below Pine, whereon fouror five large houses stood, called Barclays row, was sold for »^60only of real value. Many specimens of the colonial bills, now rarely seen, may be in-spected in my books of MS. Annals, both in the City Library andwith the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. All of us have heard so much of continental money^^^ withouthaving ever seen it—roughly and rudely as it was executed, antlruinous as it was to many by its rapid depreciation, (falling, in 1781,to 7000 for 100 dollars of specie, and soon after to nothing!) that itmay be curious, and a novelty to many, to see a copy herein givenof the impression of a seven dollar bill. Flooded as the country hadbeen by its destructive inundations, it is matter of just surprise thstf Lotteries, 443 BO little now remains, even as a preserved curiosity. We had neverseen more than the present specimen, and this we only found after THE UNITED COLONIES. No. SEVEN DOLLARS. This Bill entitles the \Bearer to receive Seven \Spanish milled Dollars^ ^or the value thereof inGold or Silver, acco}d-ing to a Resolutioti ofCongress, passed atPhiladelphia, Novem-ber 29, 1775. /. Packer,R. Tuckniss. saw 0100 aaiisia shjl I ^?; ^:: las^ : i many fruitless inquiries. Such were the helps by which we carriedon the war. None of it ivas ever redeemed; and those who hadmost of it, had the evidence in themselves how far they had indivi-dually contributed to its eventual success. See App. p. 55 L LOTTERIES. It must be told ;These from thy lottery wheels are sold:Sold, and thy children dearly taxed,• That few may win. It must be told, that fearful as is the waste of treasure and morakby the present infatuation of many for lotteries, they were
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