Continental promissory note

DateFebruary 28, 1777

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Currency
Ink
Paper
Massachusetts

Dimensions20.8 × 16.6 cm (8 3/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

MarkingsWritten in ink on back, "Recd of Henry Gardner Sy four pounds ten shillings on account the written being for a firelock 4.00/ .... W Barber/ Lee Lyman/ on behalf of Joseph Blake/ Danl Lyman Capt."

Credit Line6% Credit note, Massachusetts, 1775-1777. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of the Cummings Davis Society; 2007.22.7-13.

Object number2007.22.17

DescriptionLetterpress and manuscript on paper. Continental promissory note (bond) from Massachusetts Bay Colony. American Revolution. "No. 18641....For Value Received for the Use of the State of Massachusetts Bay, I do in Behalf of the said State, hereby promise and oblige myself, and Successors in the Office of Treasurer, to pay to the Possessor of this Note the Sum of Ten Pounds, on the Sixth Day of December 1780, with Interest at Six per Cent...." Signed H. Gardner, Treasurer. Also signed by Wm. Cooper and N. Appleton (Committee).