y of a loan.
There were four classes of tickets, a hundred thousand in each,--$10,
$20, $30, and $40; in all $10,000,000. In Lossing's "Field-Book of the
Revolution," from which we derive this account, may be seen a copy of
one of these lottery tickets. Probably the people were too poor at that
time to furnish the requisite sum of money, and so the tickets did not
sell readily; or the lottery may have been badly managed.

Congregational Churches used to raise money by lottery, as appears by
the following advertisement in the "Columbian Centinel," May 5, 1792,--

_NEWPORT LOTTERY TICKETS._

--> _A few TICKETS, in the Newport Congregational Church
Lottery, which commences drawing the 10th instant, may be had
at No._ 61 LONG-WHARF _if applied for immediately. May 5._

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At a town meeting held in Salem, Mass., on Dec. 28, 1789, "George
Williams, Esq., General Fisk, and Joseph Sprague, Esq., were chosen a
Committee to estimate the expense of clearing out the Channels in the
North and South rivers; and to prefer a petition to the General Court
for the grant of a _Lottery_ to aid the town in so beneficial an
undertaking." We believe this project was never carried through; but we
are of opinion that some residents of Salem would now welcome even a
_raffle,_ if in that way their North River could be purified, as at
present no other method seems so likely to succeed, judging from the
controversy which has been going on in that city for several years
without effecting any result.

The "Massachusetts Centinel," May 22, 1790, notifies the "_Friends of
Science_" that "a few ... Williamstown Free-school Lottery Tickets ...
may be had of the Printer."

MARBLEHEAD, APRIL 3. The highest Prize in the State Lottery
was drawn by a number of Females: About thirty were joint
possessors of that fortunate number and five others: The
highest share in them did not exceed one dollar, and the
lowest was nine pence, expressive of the different abilities
of the concerned; by which circumstance, the property of the
prize is most agreeably divided: It has excited a smile in
the cheek of poverty, nor diminished the pleasure of those in
easy circumstances.

_Massachusetts Gazette,_ 1786.

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_Providence Street-Lottery._