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Colonial Currency > Rhode Island

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Newport Troop Payment 50 Pounds
Grade: VF/XF    

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June 8, 1758. Entirely handwritten document. "Payable to Nathan Rice, Esq. Fifty pounds Lawful Money it being to enable him to pay wages to the troops, and charge the same to the Colony." Four Committee of War signatures at bottom. One of those signers, Thomas Cranston, was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, as well as a Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Since this is dated 1758 one would assume that this troop payment was somehow related to the French and Indian War, since the colony did supply troops for that war effort.

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