was drawn by a number of Females: About thirty were joint
possessors of that fortunate number and five others: The
highest share in them did not exceed one dollar, and the
lowest was nine pence, expressive of the different abilities
of the concerned; by which circumstance, the property of the
prize is most agreeably divided: It has excited a smile in
the cheek of poverty, nor diminished the pleasure of those in
easy circumstances.

_Massachusetts Gazette,_ 1786.

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_Providence Street-Lottery._

CLASS 3d.

THE Managers present the public with the following SCHEME of
a LOTTERY, granted by the Hon. General Assembly of this
State, at their January Session, A.D. 1795, for raising a Sum
of Money to defray the Expences of Finishing, in a durable
Manner, a Street at the North End of this Town.

This being the great Continental Thoroughfare and Post Road,
and much frequented at all Seasons by Persons on Foot and
Horse-Back, and by Teams and Carriages, merits the greatest
Attention to its Improvement from Town and Country.

The old Road was crooked and inconvenient, the new Street is
Streight, and secured in such a Manner as to be passed in