BIB_ID
127462
Accession number
MA 556.38
Creator
Rhoads, Samuel, 1711-1784.
Display Date
after 1769 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.4 x 7.3 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the members of the First Continental Congress; see main record for MA 556 for more information.
Summary
A printed two-shilling note that "entitle[s] the Bearer to receive of the Treasurer of the Contributors to the Relief and Employment of the Poor in the City of Philadelphia, the like Sum of Two Shillings." The note is based on an Act of "the tenth of March, 1769" and signed by Rhoads.
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