Scheme of a lottery to raise 40,800 dollars, on 272,000 dollars, deducting 15 per cent from prizes : --this lottery consists of 20,000 tickets, divided into three classes, of which there is 8,815 prizes and 11,185 blanks, being one and a quarter blanks to a prize. : The directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect a lottery for raising one hundred thousand dollars, agreeably to an act of the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same ...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26141.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lotteries--New Jersey--Newark.

Lotteries.

New Jersey--Newark.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Advertisements -- Lotteries.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 44 x 26 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Newark, N.J.] : Printed by John Woods, Newark, New-Jersey, --1793.

Notes:

"This scheme, proposed in May, was laid aside as of too great magnitude, especially as it was opposed in New York and Pennsylvania, and another scheme of a single class lottery proposed in November, 1793."--Evans.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26141).

Cited in:

Evans 26141

OCLC:

55809651