A scheme for a paper currency, for the benefit of the province
Contributors: Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757; Sewall, Samuel, 1678-1751; Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher); Massachusetts. Council; Massachusetts. General Court
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1739
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Paper money; Money
Notes: Name of printer, John Draper, suggested by John Carter Brown Library bibliographic information sheet but cannot be documented by any other bibliography or source.

Dated and signed on page 10: Boston goal, going onward two years of my unjust confinement. April 19. 1739. Richard Fry.

"To his Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; captain general and Governour in Chief in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. To the Honourable His Majesty's Council. And the honourable House of Representatives, in General Court assembled at Boston. The petition of Richard Fry of Boston", pages [i]-ii, 4th count, has separate caption title.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]1 verso blank) B-D² chi² (chi 2 blank)

Woodcut headpieces; initials.

Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B1045.

Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 40159.

Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 5340.

English short title catalogue, W35886.

Purchase; 1912; 9020.