In the House of Representatives, June 26, 1776: Whereas repeated applications have been made by the Honorable Congress to this Court, to procure a sum of hard money, to be forthwith sent into Canada, for the support of our army ... Resolved, that ... the friends of America ... sign subscription-papers, purporting what sum in hard money each man is willing to exchange for Continental bills ... In Council, June 27, 1776. Read and concurr'd
Creator / Contributor
Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Danielson, Timothy. ; Lowell, John ; 1743-1802 ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
Title
Rebel Soldiers Buying U.S. Gold and Treasury Notes from Union Prisoners, Charleston, South Carolina.
Creator / Contributor
Crane, William T., 1832-1865
Collection Title
Civil War drawings collection, approximately 1861-1865.
Title
Scale of depreciation: agreeable to an act of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to be observed as a rule for settling the rate of depreciation on all contracts both publick and private, made on or since the first day of January, 1777
