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DateDecember 1, 1777
Terms
  • Currency
  • Ink
  • Paper
  • Massachusetts
Dimensions15.1 × 23.2 cm (5 15/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
MarkingsIn ink on back, "James Thomas/ B23/5/ Consolid 4.17.4/ May 1783/ N19001."
Credit Line6% Credit note, Massachusetts, 1775-1777. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of the Cummings Davis Society; 2007.22.7-13.
Object number2007.22.7
DescriptionLetterpress and manuscript on paper. Continental promissory note (bond) from Massachusetts Bay Colony. American Revolution. "No 2460....Received of Benjamin Thomas the Sum of Ten Pounds...." To be repaid by March 1, 1782 with 6 percent interest. Signed H. Gardner, Treasurer. Also signed by S. Scollay, Eze Price, and P Boyer (Committee).
Collections
  • American Revolutionary War
Currency
Object number: 2007.22.9
December 1, 1777
Currency
Object number: 2007.22.8
December 1, 1777
Continental promissory note, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Object number: 2007.22.10
December 1, 1777
Continental promissory note, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Object number: 2007.22.11
December 1, 1777
Continental promissory note, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Object number: 2007.22.12
May 30, 1778
Object number: 2007.22.15
January 15, 1777
Object number: 2007.22.16A,B
January 15, 1777
Ten-pound bounty note
Object number: 2007.22.14
February 5, 1778
Continental promissory note
Object number: 2007.22.17
February 28, 1777
Twelve-shilling Note
Object number: D424
May 25, 1775