Title: The General Assembly having passed a resolve for raising a sum of money ... for the benefit of those officers and soldiers who inlisted into the fifteen Continental battalions raised by this state, appointed ... directors of a lottery for that purpose ... The following scheme is accordingly offered ... Massachusetts-State lottery. ..
Subjects: Pay, allowances, Lotteries, History, Finance, commerce, confiscations, United States. Continental Army
Places: Massachusetts, United States
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783