Part 3
MARTIN LUTHER, } WILLIAM BARTON, } Managers. DANIEL KELLEY; }
Warren, Nov. 28, 1794.
--> Tickets and Quarters of Tickets in the above Lottery, may be had at the Post-Office, Boston.
Jan. 31, 1795.
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_GOOD FORTUNE IN THE LOTTERY REALIZED._
_Boston, May_ 12, 1791.
ON Monday last, Messrs. _Edward Esty_ and _Oliver Johnson,_ of Westmoreland in the State of New-hampshire, produced the ticket No. 6052, which drew the highest prize (TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) in the Semi-annual Lottery, to Mr. JOHN KNEELAND, (the Manager who signed that number, and whose tickets have been remarkable for drawing the highest prizes) who gave them a check on the Bank for their money, which they received the next day.
A circumstance relating to the purchase of this ticket may be worth relating. The owners of it were at Charlestown, late on the Saturday evening preceding the drawing of the lottery, and had mounted their horses to go on their way home, before they recollected wanting a ticket. Mr. Bridge (who sold tickets in Charlestown) happened to be then up, at his house--and went to his store, in the dark, and from his desk took the fortunate number, and sold it to the above fortunate persons.
_Salem Gazette,_ May 17, 1791.
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Dartmouth College scheme, as advertised in the "Salem Gazette" in 1796.
_Dartmouth College Lottery._
CLASS SECOND.
THE Managers of Dartmouth College Lottery present to the Public the following Scheme of the Second Class, in which they have aimed to meet their wishes by making a larger proportion of valuable prizes than usual; they flatter themselves that the same Public Spirit will be displayed, by encouraging the sale of Tickets in this, that was so fully manifested in the former Class.
_SCHEME._
_Prizes_ _Dolls._ _Dolls._
1 of 3000 is 3000 1 1000 1000 4 500 are 2000 10 200 2000 20 100 2000 30 50 1500 80 20 1600 100 10 1000 1650 6 9900 ----- ------ 1896 _Prizes._ 24,000 4140 _Blanks._ ----- 6000 _Tickets, at 4 Dollars each, are_ 24,000.
Subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent.
Of the above prizes of 500 Dollars, one of them will be placed to the first drawn blank, and the other three to the three last drawn blanks.
This Class will positively commence drawing at Concord, on the 1st day of December next; and when completed, a list of Prizes will be immediately published, and the prizes paid on demand.
JONATHAN FREEMAN, } BENJAMIN CONNOR, } Managers. WILLIAM J. KENT, }
Concord, Aug. 17, 1796.
TICKETS sold by JOHN JENKS and CUSHING & CARLTON.
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Harvard College appears to have seen the "misery of adventurers drawing blanks which were worth nothing," and remedied the matter in 1811, according to the following advertisement from the "Salem Gazette."
Look on this!
THE serious evil which has fallen upon a great many adventurers, by purchasing Tickets in former lotteries, and drawing blanks which were worth nothing; appears now to be remedied.--The managers of the Fifth Class of Harvard College Lottery, have in their wisdom taken the misery of this evil into consideration and have given us a scheme preferable to any former one; by which it seems that from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars will be distributed among persons whose tickets are drawn blanks in this lottery, which commences drawing in a few days; and the greater part of the Tickets are now sold. _Whole and Quarter Tickets_ for sale at the Bookstore and Lottery Office of
HENRY WHIPPLE,
June 7, 1811. _No. 6, Wakefield Place._
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A Boston paper of 1811 has the following:
Washington Monument Lottery
WILL commence drawing in Baltimore the 4th day of September next.
The Capital Prizes are 1 of 50,000 dollars, 1 of 30,000, 1 of 20,000, 2 of 10,000, 3 of 5,000, 20 of 100 Tickets, And many of 2000, 1000, 500, &c. &c.
Tickets and Quarters for Sale by Simpson and Caldwell, of Baltimore, who request all persons who wish to purchase Tickets and Quarters in the above Lottery, to forward their orders, post paid, enclosing cash, to Messrs. BRIDGE & RENOUF, No. 79, state street, Boston; and they may depend on their orders being promptly executed.
Price of Tickets 11 dollars--Quarters 2 87.
Aug. 13, 1811.
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The "Union Canal Lottery" was got up in 1814 to benefit Boston and "make it advance like New York." Here is a notice of the scheme from a Salem paper,--
_Union Canal Lottery._
First Class.--Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.
It rarely happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting to the whole community. To save the _Metropolis of New-England_ from declining in its commerce and consequence on the return of a general peace--to open its internal resources, to unite New-Hampshire & Vermont to Massachusetts, by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and canals, by which their intercourse will be carried on--to make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous, extensive and productive back country, are _considerations_ into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every owner of real estate, must enter and must feel. It is therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation, will receive peculiar support; and that _many_ who have not been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this for the sake of _its object._
The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety days after the drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in Boston. Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of the drawing of the Class.
This Class will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th December next.
Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.
BENJAMIN WELD, WILLIAM A. KENT, ANDREW SIGOURNEY,
_Boston, Nov._ 8, 1814. _Managers._
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After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners. For instance, a Boston paper of 1790 says: "The highest Prize (£3,000) in the New York Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;" and in Sept. 21, 1793: "The highest prize in the 4th Class of the State Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;" and the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 says: "Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn $15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;" and it adds: "Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on Cushing & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery." In November, 1790, the "Salem Gazette" says that the call for tickets in the Massachusetts Semi-annual Lottery "has been so great in the other States that the Managers expect to draw much sooner than the time which was at first mentioned;" also that the tickets in the Marblehead Lottery are meeting with a rapid sale; and concludes that "this does not indicate a scarcity of Cash."
Here are some curious advertisements:--
From the "Columbian Centinel," Boston, May 22, 1790.
WILLIAMSTOWN _FREE SCHOOL_ LOTTERY.
We are authorised to _assure_ the Publick, and we do _assure_ them--that the 7th Class of this Lottery will not only commence drawing on Monday next, but will _positively_ be _completed_ on _Tuesday_ morning--and a list of Prizes will be published in the CENTINEL the same week.
The metropolis of Massachusetts hath ever been celebrated for the attention it hath paid to the education of its youth. In the elder world, a FRANKLIN hath been a living testimony of it, as well as in the younger. But not confined to the youth of the town is this benevolent disposition--it extends to the remotest parts of the Commonwealth; and hath been abundantly manifested in the liberal encouragement given to the Williamstown Free-School Lottery. The Class to be drawn on Monday next, will perhaps, be the last opportunity our citizens may have to gratify their humane wishes--which they will not let pass unimproved, especially as great pecuniary profit _may_ attend the gratification.
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"Salem Gazette," Nov. 24, 1812.
GALVANISM.
It has been found by Dr. NAUCHE, at Paris, that a person perfectly blind may be made to see very lively and numerous flashes of light, by bringing one extremity of the voltaic pile into communication with the hand or foot, and the other with the face, skin of the head, or even the neck. In like manner, a person in the gloom of poverty may be made to perceive very lively and numerous flashes (say 20,000) of good fortune by bringing one extremity of a ragged bank bill into communication with the Book-Store and the other with the Lottery-Office, one door west of Central Building.
N.B.--Two grand piles are now offered to the public--Harvard College, where the process is now in active operation, and Plymouth Beach which is in a state of preparation.
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"Salem Gazette."
_Writing_
_Taught in One Lesson!!_
PERSONS of any age, sex, or capacity, _let their Chirography be never so bad,_ may by _one_ exercise _make a_ VERY GOOD HAND _of it._ The means are found in the Scheme of Harvard College Lottery, which contains a most superb assortment of capital prizes. Persons desirous of securing the advantage of this _dispatchful_ tuition will apply (wholes $5, quarters 1.38) to CUSHING & APPLETON, at their Lottery Office and Bookstore, one door west of Central Building. 1811.
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From "Salem Gazette."
_"WHO WANTS A GUINEA?"_
THIS Comedy by Coleman, has for some years past, been often read and justly admired; the name now appears to have lost its novelty.
Something of greater magnitude is wished for; something which will furnish the possessor with more than a competency; which will assist the industrious and enterprizing man, in accomplishing his laudable wishes.
This surely must be the true Philosopher's Stone, which wise men of all ages have sought for in vain.--This inestimable Gem, with some of the virtues usually ascribed to it--will, after the Fifth Class of Harvard College Lottery has completed drawing, belong to some person or persons who will now generously lend a hand to patronise this excellent institution.
Those who are disposed from motives of interest or actuated by a wish to promote and encourage literature; will please call for WHOLE or QUARTER TICKETS, at the _Book-Store_ and _Lottery Office_ of
HENRY WHIPPLE,
May 17, 1711. _No. 6, Wakefield Place._
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"Salem Gazette."
Surprising Gain!
IT is true as strange, and strange as true, that the wheels of Harvard College Lottery have actually gained, in the few revolutions they have made, no less than
--> 5157 Dollars! <--
Now is the tide, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, as the immortal Shakespeare would say. The undrawn tickets have all the advantage of this gain, in addition to the common chance at the outset. A few for sale (wholes 6 dolls. quarters 1.63) at Cushing and Appleton's superlatively lucky Lottery & Exchange office, and federal book shop, one door west of Central Building, Essex street.
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In 1808 there was a "Real and truly Fortunate Lottery Office" at No. 1 Summer Street, Boston, and Detroit Bank bills were taken in payment for tickets.
_Real and truly Fortunate_
LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 1 Summer street, opposite the North west corner of the _New State House_--
D. BEMAN'S list of Capital Prizes, sold by him at his _Real and truly Fortunate Lottery Office_--as follows,
No. 9031, a Prize of 8000 Dolls. 14459 a Prize of 1000 do. 8638 a Prize of 500 do. 8950 a Prize of 500 do. 39 a Prize of 500 do. 3988 a Prize of 500 do. 12722 a Prize of 200 do.
Besides a great number of 100--50--20, and 7 Dollar Prizes--amounting to a handsome Fortune--over the whole cost of all the Tickets ever sold at his office.... This is to be considered the _Real_ and _Truly_ Fortunate Lottery Office.
--> Tickets, Quarters & Eighths in the 4th Class of Harvard College, which is now drawing--10,000 Dollars highest prize. A complete list of all the Drawing may be seen days and evenings, gratis.
Prize Tickets and Detroit Bank Bills taken in payment; such as are guaranteed are taken at par. and those of another kind at a discount.
June 3. (5W)
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The highest prize in the Providence _Episcopal Church_ Lottery was $8,000, and the drawing was to begin on Sept. 29, 1800. Tickets were sold in Boston at E. & S. Larkin's, 47 Cornhill. Gilbert & Dean, 56 State Street, Boston, make the following exhibit of the Golden Shower in 1803.
_It is impossible to tell on whom the_ GOLDEN SHOWER _will fall!_
YE that have the least relish to obtain 8000 dollars for a trifling sum, be "_up and doing!_" The third class of Hadley Lottery, will commence drawing the 15th of June.
_Remark._--The object of this Lottery is of great public utility--that of improving SOUTH HADLEY CANAL, in order to make it permanent and beneficial to the public--and the Proprietors, in this arduous undertaking, have to cut through an entire mass of rocks for _three_ miles! Laudable and praise-worthy perseverance!
Tickets for sale by GILBERT & DEAN, MAGAZINE and LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 56, _State-Street,_ where a correct list of all the prizes and blanks will be exhibited, during the drawing.
_May 25, 1803._
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In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University.
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_R. Island College Lottery._
THE Corporation of the College, wishing to discharge in the best manner the trusts reposed in them for the education of youth, and finding their funds inadequate to this purpose, have obtained of the General Assembly of the state of _Rhode-Island_ and _Providence Plantations_ the grant of a Lottery. As the sole object of this is the public good, it is hoped that the exertions of the Corporation will meet the wishes and secure the co-operation of all the friends of science and virtue. The College was founded entirely by the generosity of individuals. Though it has received no patronage from the legislative body, yet through the assiduous labours of its officers it has become considerably distinguished, &, it is hoped, has merited the attention of the public. It, however, is under great disadvantages for want of larger pecuniary resources. Of the necessity of these for the establishment of a complete system of liberal education, every one must be sensible who entertains a just conception of the vast extent of science.--Those who are disposed to promote the Lottery now brought forward, may be assured that the whole business will be transacted with the utmost exactitude and fidelity. Of this they cannot doubt, when they are informed that the management of it is wholly under the direction of the following respectable Committee, appointed by the Corporation, viz. JOHN BROWN, Esq. WELCOME ARNOLD, Esq. Mr. JOHN MASON, Col. WILLIAM RUSSELL, and Mr. JOHN P. IVES.
The Subscribers, being appointed by the Committee as Managers of the Lottery, and having given bonds according to law, now offer to the public the following
_SCHEME._
CLASS FIRST.
dols. dols.
1 Prize of 4000 is 4000 1 2000 2000 2 1000 are 2000 4 500 2000 20 100 2000 40 50 2000 60 30 1800 100 20 2000 1000 12 12000 3000 9 27000 ----- ----- 3328 Prizes, amounting to 46000 Drawback, 8000 ----- 9000 Tickets, at 6 dollars each, are 54000
The drawing of this Lottery will commence on MONDAY, the 16th day of APRIL next, and continue till it shall be completed. A list of Prizes will be published in the Providence Gazette, and the Prizes paid on demand. Those not called for within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as generously given to the College.
JOHN WHIPPLE, SAMUEL THURBER, jun.
_Providence, November 17, 1797._
--> _TICKETS in the above Lottery to be sold at this Office, and at_ JOHN DUTCH'S AUCTION ROOM, _Essex-Street._
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_Harvard College Lottery._
CLASS FIRST, Not two Blanks to a Prize.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TICKETS, at 5 Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a Deduction, of _twelve and an half per Cent._ for the purposes of the Lottery.
_Prizes_ _Dols._ _Dols._
1 of 10,000 is 10,000 2 5,000 10,000 3 2,000 6,000 6 1,000 6,000 10 500 5,000 20 200 4,000 60 100 6,000 90 50 4,500 100 40 4,000 120 30 3,600 161 20 3,220 200 10 2,000 7,585 8 60,680 ------ ------ 8,358 _Prizes,_ 125,000 16,642 _Blanks._ ------ 25,000
--> THE above Class will _positively_ commence drawing in the REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, in BOSTON, on THURSDAY, 13th November next, and will continue from day to day, and be _completed_ with all _possible dispatch._ A list of Prizes will be _immediately_ published, and the Prizes paid _on demand._
The Managers believe it enough, to induce the Public to become Adventurers, to inform them, that the object of this _Lottery_ is to erect a new Building, at the UNIVERSITY in Cambridge, for the further accommodation of the Students. The Friends of literature are to be found every where, and when its cause can be served, and a _good chance_ for personal emolument at the same time presents itself; this double inducement, it is conceived, _must_ operate in favor of the Lottery.
The Managers of this Lottery, had the conducting of the late State Lottery--the Public will do them the justice to say, that the _strictest punctuality_ as to the time fixed for Drawing, and in the payment of Prizes, was observed by them in that Lottery--they pledge themselves for the same punctuality in this.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. } GEORGE R. MINOT, } SAMUEL COOPER, } Managers. HENRY WARREN, } JOHN KNEELAND, }
_Boston, July 14, 1794._
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--> TICKETS are sold by J. JENKS, D. JENKS, J. HATHORNE, J. DABNEY, and W. CARLTON, Salem.
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Major Benjamin Russell, in the "Boston Columbian Centinel," March 26, 1791, says:
The _National_ and _State Legislatures_ being in recess, there is a "plentiful scarcity" of domestick occurrences, at this time.--This is locally remedied by the Lottery, which seems to arrest the attention of all ranks of citizens.--To describe the symptoms of the _disease_ is impossible--all are fascinated--all expect to be the favoured children of Fortune.--The rich court her smiles, as eagerly as the poor--and whilst, O! fickle Goddess, the _Young_ pour forth their supplications for thy favours,
"_With falt'ring pace, and feeble knee, See_ Age _advance, in shameless haste; The palsied hand is stretch'd to thee, For_ Wealth, _it wants the pow'r to taste._"
The delusion is general--and general must the mortification be. But as attention must be paid to the infatuation--we have endeavoured, by a regular publication of the fortunate numbers, to alleviate its frenzy.
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On March 29, 1814, Messrs. Bridge and Renouf, the well-known brokers, of 79 State Street, Boston, gave notice that a prize of $500--No. 3,394--"had" been "drawn in the Plymouth Beach Lottery." This number had been "sold by them to several young Gentlemen who purchased 30 Tickets;" and they also announced that the drawing was "suspended until the next Tuesday, when the first drawn ticket will be the highest prize, _Twenty thousand Dollars;_" and besides this, that "there are remaining to be drawn four prizes of $1,000 each, and four prizes of $500 each."
It should be noticed that there was, even in its most flourishing days, a difference of opinion among individuals in regard to the morality of the lottery, as men must differ on all subjects; so that it is perhaps only fair to cite a specimen or two of the communications which appeared in the papers in reference thereto. A writer in the "Salem Gazette," June 29, 1790, says:--
_OF LOTTERIES._