sell readily; or the lottery may have been badly managed.

Congregational Churches used to raise money by lottery, as appears by
the following advertisement in the "Columbian Centinel," May 5, 1792,--

_NEWPORT LOTTERY TICKETS._

--> _A few TICKETS, in the Newport Congregational Church
Lottery, which commences drawing the 10th instant, may be had
at No._ 61 LONG-WHARF _if applied for immediately. May 5._

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At a town meeting held in Salem, Mass., on Dec. 28, 1789, "George
Williams, Esq., General Fisk, and Joseph Sprague, Esq., were chosen a
Committee to estimate the expense of clearing out the Channels in the
North and South rivers; and to prefer a petition to the General Court
for the grant of a _Lottery_ to aid the town in so beneficial an
undertaking." We believe this project was never carried through; but we
are of opinion that some residents of Salem would now welcome even a
_raffle,_ if in that way their North River could be purified, as at
present no other method seems so likely to succeed, judging from the
controversy which has been going on in that city for several years
without effecting any result.

The "Massachusetts Centinel," May 22, 1790, notifies the "_Friends of
Science_" that "a few ... Williamstown Free-school Lottery Tickets ...
may be had of the Printer."

MARBLEHEAD, APRIL 3. The highest Prize in the State Lottery