days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in
Boston. Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of
the drawing of the Class.

This Class will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th
December next.

Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.

BENJAMIN WELD,
WILLIAM A. KENT,
ANDREW SIGOURNEY,

_Boston, Nov._ 8, 1814. _Managers._


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After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the
papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners. For instance, a
Boston paper of 1790 says: "The highest Prize (£3,000) in the New York
Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;" and in
Sept. 21, 1793: "The highest prize in the 4th Class of the State
Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;" and
the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 says: "Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn
$15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;" and it
adds: "Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on
Cushing & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery." In
November, 1790, the "Salem Gazette" says that the call for tickets in
the Massachusetts Semi-annual Lottery "has been so great in the other