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1 776-1 778 (Pine Tree), bills of 2 and 6 pence and 3 Shillings 

 uncut, as printed together on one sheet. 



1 775-1 776 (Sword-in-hand bills), i and 4 pence, 8, 12, and 48 

 Shillings. 



1776, an old counterfeit bill of 4 dollars. 



1780, Massachusetts Bay, Continental Currency series with set 

 to show backs i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 20 dollars. 



A bündle ;^2,ooo, of cancelled ^20 bills preserved in the origi- 

 nal package. 



Treasury note 44 pounds 3 Shillings Dec. i, 1777, to Josiah 

 Hemmenway. 



War Committee note for 10 pounds March 11, 1777. 



Case 2. Early new England press-vvork, broadsides, 

 almanacs, etc., selected from the collections of the Essex 

 Institute. 



Eighteenth-century almanacs including interleaved almanac 

 with manuscript notes of family and local happenings, an old 

 colonial custom. 



Engraving, by Paul Revere, and in original frame, of the Boston 

 Massacre, March 5, 1770. 



Broadside : ballad on the death of General Wolfe, Sept. 13, 



1759- 



Pamphlet : abstract of Massachusetts criminal laws, printed in 

 1704, containing the famous "Scarlet Letter" law. 



Pamphlet : relating to the Maule controversy ; " Persecutors 

 mauled with their own weapons." 



Salem and Boston eighteenth-century newspapers : Essex Reg- 

 ister, N. E. Courant, Sentinel, Gazette, Post Boy, including one in 

 mourning announcing the death of George W^ashington. 



Lottery tickets, loaned by Mr. Henry M. Brooks : United States 

 lottery to recoup war expenses 1776 ; State of Massachusetts to 

 procure funds 1781 ; Harvard College for educational purposes 

 1795 ; a church at Bristol, R. I., for church funds, 1802. 



Gase 3, Old-time needlework, 



Sampler wrought by Mary M. Peele, 1778. 

 Basket of flowers, Kensington stitch, about 1790. 



