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Catalog Number |
1911.3.1C |
Object Name |
Currency |
Description |
US Eight dollars 5/1780 Continental Issued by Mass Bay Printed by Hall & Sellers One side of this bank note, the text says "Eight Dollars. State of Maffachufetts (Massachusetts) Bay. Followed by the number (8659) The Poffeffor (Possessor) of this B)ll fhall (shall) be paid eight Spanifh (Spanish) milled Dollars by the thirty-firft (thirty-first) Day of December. One Thous...(and Seven) Hundred and Eighty-fix (eighty-six), with intereft (interest) in like M...(oney at t)he rate of Five per Centum per Annum (five per hundred of year), by the... (state of M)affachusetts-bay, according to an Act of...(the legis)lature of the faid (said) state of the Fifth Day of May of 1780". Red Stamp = Phrase "Intereft paid one year" is stamped vertically. Annual and month interest is at the bottom left corner of note while signatures of Massachusetts Legislators Loammi Baldwin and R. Cranch (Richard Cranch) are at the bottom. Back side of Eight Dollar note contains a symbol with a harp with thirteen strings (representing thirteen colonies), with Latin phrase Majora minoribus consonan (meaning "The larger are in harmony with the smaller"). The text says "Printed by Hall and Sellers. The United… (States) enfure (ensure) the Payment of the w…(ithin Bi)ll, and will draw Bills of Exchange for the Intereft annually, if demanded, according to a Refolution (Resolution) of congress of the 18th of March, 1780". The bottom is endorsed in a faded signature my Legislator Peter Boyer. |
Date |
May 1780 |
Year Range from |
1780 |
Year Range to |
1780 |
Subjects |
Currency Paper Money |
Search Terms |
Massachusetts American Revolution |
Material |
Paper |
Source |
Brackett, Carolyn |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |