happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting
to the whole community. To save the _Metropolis of
New-England_ from declining in its commerce and consequence
on the return of a general peace--to open its internal
resources, to unite New-Hampshire & Vermont to Massachusetts,
by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and
canals, by which their intercourse will be carried on--to
make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous,
extensive and productive back country, are _considerations_
into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every
owner of real estate, must enter and must feel. It is
therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to
complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation,
will receive peculiar support; and that _many_ who have not
been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be
willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this
for the sake of _its object._

The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety days after the
drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty
days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in
Boston. Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of
the drawing of the Class.

This Class will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th
December next.

Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.

BENJAMIN WELD,
WILLIAM A. KENT,
ANDREW SIGOURNEY,

_Boston, Nov._ 8, 1814. _Managers._

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After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the
papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners. For instance, a
Boston paper of 1790 says: "The highest Prize (L3,000) in the New York
Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;" and in
Sept. 21, 1793: "The highest prize in the 4th Class of the State
Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;" and
the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 says: "Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn
$15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;" and it
adds: "Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on
Cushing & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery." In
November, 1790, the "Salem Gazette" says that the call