1751 RI. 1750 Act Receipt With 3 Currency Signers
Colonial America
Order Paid for "five Reams of Paper bought for the Government" for Rhode Island's Printing of the March 18, 1750 Issue Notes with 3 Colonial Currency Official Signers
July 15, 1751-Dated Colonial Era, Historic Fiscal Related Manuscript Document, Relating to the Printing, Signing, and Issuing of Paper Money for Colonial Rhode Island's March 18, 1750 Act, Receipt Signed, "Peleg Brown" (1709-1756) and Three Official Paper Money "Signers," Very Fine.
This intriguing important financial related Manuscript Document that records Three Signers of Colonial Rhode Island Currency, including: James Sheffield; Gideon Wanton; and Benjamin Nichols, here Ordering Paper for printing the very Colonial Currency Notes they were to later sign. Though not specific, this "Paper" purchase was undoubtedly for printing the Rhode Island legislature's March 18, 1750 Currency Emission Act. This Document is an original Pay Order from Newport, Rhode Island, measuring 4.5" x 6.25" that reads, in full:
"Newport - July 15th 1751 Mr. Thomas Richardson, Gen{era}l Treas(ure)r Pay to Peleg Brown the Sum of Thirty Eight pounds Ten Shillings and Charge the same to Acc(oun)t of the Government it being for five Reams of Paper bought for the Government youse {sic}." (Signed) James Sheffield, Gideon Wanton and Benjamin Nichols. Further endorsed on the blank back with a large signature by "Peleg Brown". Minor water tone at top, otherwise well written and signed on clean British Royal Crown watermarked laid period paper. Visually appealing, an important related tie-in for Rhode Island Paper Money and Colonial Currency specialist collectors.
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Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Colonial Currency, Paper Money, Early Paper Money of America, Rhode Island Currency, American Revolutionary War Loan, Colonial America, Province of Fiscal Paper, Printing Paper Money, Revolutionary War, George Washington, Continental Congress, Independence Hall, No Taxation Without Representation, Inflation, Fiat Currency, Currency Printing, Benjamin Franklin, Continental Treasury
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Order Paid for "five Reams of Paper bought for the Government" for Rhode Island's Printing of the March 18, 1750 Issue Notes with 3 Colonial Currency Official Signers
July 15, 1751-Dated Colonial Era, Historic Fiscal Related Manuscript Document, Relating to the Printing, Signing, and Issuing of Paper Money for Colonial Rhode Island's March 18, 1750 Act, Receipt Signed, "Peleg Brown" (1709-1756) and Three Official Paper Money "Signers," Very Fine.
This intriguing important financial related Manuscript Document that records Three Signers of Colonial Rhode Island Currency, including: James Sheffield; Gideon Wanton; and Benjamin Nichols, here Ordering Paper for printing the very Colonial Currency Notes they were to later sign. Though not specific, this "Paper" purchase was undoubtedly for printing the Rhode Island legislature's March 18, 1750 Currency Emission Act. This Document is an original Pay Order from Newport, Rhode Island, measuring 4.5" x 6.25" that reads, in full:
"Newport - July 15th 1751 Mr. Thomas Richardson, Gen{era}l Treas(ure)r Pay to Peleg Brown the Sum of Thirty Eight pounds Ten Shillings and Charge the same to Acc(oun)t of the Government it being for five Reams of Paper bought for the Government youse {sic}." (Signed) James Sheffield, Gideon Wanton and Benjamin Nichols. Further endorsed on the blank back with a large signature by "Peleg Brown". Minor water tone at top, otherwise well written and signed on clean British Royal Crown watermarked laid period paper. Visually appealing, an important related tie-in for Rhode Island Paper Money and Colonial Currency specialist collectors.
KEYWORDS:
Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Colonial Currency, Paper Money, Early Paper Money of America, Rhode Island Currency, American Revolutionary War Loan, Colonial America, Province of Fiscal Paper, Printing Paper Money, Revolutionary War, George Washington, Continental Congress, Independence Hall, No Taxation Without Representation, Inflation, Fiat Currency, Currency Printing, Benjamin Franklin, Continental Treasury
