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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery - Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
page 43 of 124 (34%)

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A Boston paper of 1811 has the following:

Washington Monument Lottery

WILL commence drawing in Baltimore the 4th day of September
next.

The Capital Prizes are
1 of 50,000 dollars,
1 of 30,000,
1 of 20,000,
2 of 10,000,
3 of 5,000,
20 of 100 Tickets,
And many of 2000, 1000, 500, &c. &c.

Tickets and Quarters for Sale by Simpson and Caldwell, of
Baltimore, who request all persons who wish to purchase
Tickets and Quarters in the above Lottery, to forward their
orders, post paid, enclosing cash, to Messrs. BRIDGE &
RENOUF, No. 79, state street, Boston; and they may depend on
their orders being promptly executed.

Price of Tickets 11 dollars--Quarters 2 87.

Aug. 13, 1811.

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