Harvard College Lottery Book, 1794-1797.

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Harvard College Lottery Book, 1794-1797.

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The long hardcover account book contains handwritten records of the Harvard College Lottery in the hand of College Treasurer Ebenezer Storer. The volume begins with a transcription of the Massachusetts General Court June 13, 1794 legislation sanctioning the lottery, and a note that the managers of the lottery gave security bonds to the Corporation. The bulk of the volume records the activities of the four classes of the lottery including lists of the individual tickets returned by the managers Benjamin Austin Jr., George R. Minot, Henry Warren, and John Kneeland, and the accounts of prizes drawn and tickets returned. The volume has a table of contents and there is a note pasted onto the third page calculating the sum raised if all tickets had been sold.

.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Austin, Benjamin, 1752-1820

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Storer, Ebenezer, 1730-1807.

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Ebenezer Storer was born in Boston on January 27, 1729/30. He received a B.A. from Harvard in 1747, and an M.A. in 1750. He joined his father as a merchant after graduation. In 1777, Storer assumed the role of Harvard College Treasurer in place of John Hancock. In 1797 he was appointed an inspector in the Excise Office of the United States, and later served for two years as Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for the Town of Boston. He died on January 5, 1807. From the description of An...

Minot, George Richards, 1758-1802

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