The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.

Providence, November 17, 1797.

—­> TICKETS in the above Lottery to be sold at this Office,
and at
JOHN DUTCH’S AUCTION ROOM, Essex-Street.

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Harvard College Lottery.

CLASS FIRST,
Not two Blanks to a Prize.

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TICKETS, at 5 Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a Deduction, of twelve and an half per Cent. for the purposes of the Lottery.

Prizes Dols. Dols.

1    of    10,000    is     10,000
2           5,000           10,000
3           2,000            6,000
6           1,000            6,000
10             500            5,000
20             200            4,000
60             100            6,000
90              50            4,500
100              40            4,000
120              30            3,600
161              20            3,220
200              10            2,000
7,585               8           60,680
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8,358 Prizes,           125,000
16,642 Blanks.
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25,000
—­> THE above Class will positively commence drawing in the REPRESENTATIVES’ CHAMBER, in BOSTON, on THURSDAY, 13th November next, and will continue from day to day, and be completed with all possible dispatch. A list of Prizes will be immediately published, and the Prizes paid on demand.
The Managers believe it enough, to induce the Public to become Adventurers, to inform them, that the object of this Lottery is to erect a new Building, at the UNIVERSITY in Cambridge, for the further accommodation of the Students.  The Friends of literature are to be found every where, and when its cause can be served, and a good chance for personal emolument at the same time presents itself; this double inducement, it is conceived, must operate in favor of the Lottery.
The Managers of this Lottery, had the conducting of the late State Lottery—­the Public will do them the justice to say, that the strictest punctuality as to the time fixed for Drawing, and in the payment of Prizes, was observed by them in that Lottery—­they pledge themselves for the same punctuality in this.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun.  }
GEORGE R. MINOT,       }
SAMUEL COOPER,         }    Managers. 
HENRY WARREN,          }
JOHN KNEELAND,         }

Boston, July 14, 1794.

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—­> TICKETS are sold by J. JENKS, D. JENKS, J. HATHORNE, J.
DABNEY, and W. CARLTON, Salem.

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Major Benjamin Russell, in the “Boston Columbian Centinel,” March 26, 1791, says: 

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