Early New York Paper Currency. 



75 



Signed by Henry Holland, Walter Franklin, Theophy- 

 lact Bache, Samnel Verplanck, or any three of them. 



Description: Impressed with the arms of the city of 

 New York, on the right hand side. 1 



Number and division of the bills: 

 5,000 bills, each of £10. 



6,000 do. 5. 



6,000 do. 3. 



5,000 do. 2. 



6,000 do. 1. 



8,000 do. 105. 



8,000 do. 55. 



Amount canceled, not known. 

 Printed by Hugh Gaine. 



1775.— September 2. 



Amount, £45,000 or $112,500. 

 Form : This bill shall pass current in all payments in 



this Colony for Spanish milled dollars, or the value 



thereof in gold or silver, according to the resolution of the 

 Provincial Congress of New York, the second day of Sep- 

 tember, 1775. 



Signed by Robert Ray, J ohn Sebring, Evert Bancker, 

 John Reade, John Broome, Jeremiah Brewer, Eleazer 

 Miller, Thomas Tucker, William Denning, Abraham 

 Brinckerhoff, Garrit Abeel, Abraham Livingston, An- 

 thony L. Bleecker, William Mercey, or any three 2 of 

 them. 



Description : Impressed with the arms of the city and 

 such other devices as the committee shall direct. 3 



1 These bills were largely counterfeited. An act was passed in 1773, 

 directing the signers to cause new plates to be prepared and 44,000 impres- 

 sions struck off on thin paper and pasted over on the reverse side of the 

 bills first emitted. 



3 Afterwards reduced to two. 



3 Counterfeited in Westchester county. 



