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One Dollar Colonial Currency
Issued by the State of Rhode Island, dated 2 July 1780. Condition is circulated

1813 document issued by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the Town Council of the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island. "Whereas Dean Kimball of said Scituate hath requested Licence (sic) to keep a Tavern in said Town; and has given bond as the law in such case provides: Therefore Know Ye, That the said Town-Council, believing the said Dean Kimball to be a fit and suitable perform for a Tavern-Keeper, do by these presents licence and permit him to keep a Tavern and Public House of Entertainment, with liberty to sell wines and strong liquors in said Town, from the day of the date hereof until Last Monday in November next - Provided that he suffer no unlawful game or games, drunkeness, or other disorderly behavior, in his dwellinghouse or other possessions; and shall in all things comply with the Act entitled "An act enabling the Town-Councils of each Town in this State to grant Licenses for retailing strong liquors, and to prevent the selling of the same without license, and against keeping up of signs at unlicensed houses"-And also the act in amendment of the act aforesaid. Given at a Town-Council holden in and for said Town of Scituate on the 23rd day of January A.D. 1813. Signed and sealed by order and in behalf of the said Town Council. Signed "John Westcott - Clerk."

Bristol, Massachusetts Timothy Borden in the TOWN OF REHOBETH (or Rekobeth?) Acknowledges himself justly indebted unto Christopher Phillips of NORTH KINGSTOWN, in Kings County, R.I. (in the Colony of Rhode Island) (Spelled Rhoad Island) (for 4 whole pounds lawful New England money, WOW?) Signed by same & witnessed by Thos. Peckham, Jr. & Sam. Browne. - Actual size is 8 X 8.

Judaica Document regarding the commercial ship "Charlotte" ... Estate accounting of a deceased man by the name of Geo. Buckmaster dated 1766 mentioning a note owed regarding a "Brig. Charlotte." The Charlotte was owned by Moses & Sam Levy, Jacob Franks. The Levy's were prominent businessmen in the Jewish Community in Newport Rhode Island, late eighteenth century. 41 lines of entries.

OCT.,1776, Partial minutes from a STATE of Rhode Island General Assembly meeting and SIGNED by General Assembly Sec. HENRY WARD. Pgs. 1 & 2 are copies. The 11 remaining pages of the 39 page document are original. This is one of the earliest Genral Assembly meetings as a STATE. Deals with Taxes, counterfeiting, Payrole, the Draft Allotments by town, Mfg. of Gunpowder, and more. In part "It is Voted and Resolved that Mr Jonathan Hazard and Charles Holden, Efq. ....proceed.... to his Excellancy General Washington with a letter to him, and the Commiffions for the Officers appointed by this Assembly". "His Excellancy General George Washington" is the subject of two resolves. Most resolves have Revolutionary War origins.