Lottery for Paving the Main-Street of Fredericksburg.

• imprint_number: 1804.046
• title: Class, No. 1. Scheme of a lottery, to raise part of fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of paving the Main-Street of Fredericksburg. ... Tickets to be had by applying to Benjamin Day, David Henderson, and Alexander Duncan. All prizes will be paid thirty days after the drawing is completed; and if not demanded within six months after such last day's drawing, then such prize, not so demanded, shall be considered as gratuitously relinquished for the benefit of the lottery.
• sequence_number: 46
• year: 1804
• place_issued: Fredericksburg
• issuing_press: Timothy Green
• author: City of Fredericksburg.
• notes: The mayor and common council of Fredericksburg were authorized by the General Assembly on January 5, 1804 (Chap. XLVIII of Acts of December 1803 Assembly) to conduct a "lottery or lotteries" to fund paving the city's main street. This sheet lays out the plan for raising the first $7500 to that end.
  Sheet lacks colophon; at this time, Timothy Green's press was the one normally contracted by the city government for its printing; also, Henderson was a major merchant with close ties to Green, selling books among his other goods; these two facts inform the attribution here.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Timothy Green IV
  • David Henderson

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