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Lottery Records

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Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: University Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Box one contains twentieth-century articles about the lotteries, as well as materials from a 1954 University Library exhibit on the lotteries. Boxes two and three contain eighteenth-century lottery documents about the following five lotteries: the Philadelphia Lottery (1749-1750), the Connecticut Lottery (1753-1754), the New Jersey College Lottery (1761), the New Jersey College Lottery (1763-1764), and the Delaware Lottery (1772-1774). All drawings were held in the locations specified except the New Jersey College Lottery of 1761, which was held in Philadelphia. Lottery materials include account information, broadside lottery announcements, lists of winning tickets and prizes, and actual lottery tickets.

Twentieth-century materials are housed in box one. Boxes two and three contain eighteenth- century lottery documents, organized by lottery and then alphabetically.

A small number of original and microfilmed documents relating to the lotteries (especially the Delaware Lottery) can be found at either the Rare Books Division or the Microform Service Center, both at Firestone Library. Search the online catalog by keywords "Princeton and Lottery," by a specific lottery name, or by using any of the subject lines below to yield descriptions, call numbers, and locations.

The collection was compiled of documents from a 1954 University Library exhibit and gifts from various donors. Accession records exist at Firestone Library for items within folders labeled with an AM accession number.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Date
2005
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

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1 box

Related Articles, circa 1923-1953. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Exhibition, 1954 January. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Account: Branson, William, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Hazard, Samuel, 1751 May. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 1750 October. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Redman, Joseph, 1750 January. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Reed, Andrew, 1751 May. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Accounts: Shippen, William, and James Neilson, 1750. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Smith, Samuel, 1751 May. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Spoffard, George, 1751 May. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Announcement in the Boston Gazette (photostat), 1749 February. 1 folder.
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1 folder

List of Winning Tickets Paid by Peter Van Brugh Livingston, 1751 April. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Account: Alford (Letter from Jonathan Sergeant, also Regarding Land Sales), 1755 March. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Accounts: Lawson, Alex, and Corbin Lee, 1755 April. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Sergeant, Jonathan, 1755 February. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Smith, John, 1754 September. 1 folder.
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1 folder

List of Winning Tickets in the New York Gazette, 1754 September. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Petition of the College to the State of Connecticut, 1753 October. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Tickets, 1753. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Account: Bryan, George (photocopy), 1762 September. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Ticket (photostat), 1761. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Account: Forman, Ezekiel, 1763 December. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Henry, John, 1763. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Account: Paterson, Richard, 1764 September. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Facsimile Broadside Announcements (Smaller Facsimile Printed in the Princeton University Library Chronicle), 1763 December. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lists of Insured Tickets; and Accounts: Jonathan Sergeant and Ezekiel Forman, 1764. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lists of Tickets and Notes by Jeremiah Halsey; and Accounts: William Peartree Smith and Jonathan Sergeant, 1764-1765. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lists of Winning Tickets Paid by Samuel Smith and Robert Ogden, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Petition of the College to the State of New Jersey, 1762 September. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Tickets, 1763. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

Accounts of the Two Churches, circa 1769. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Broadside Announcement (Facsimile Printed in the Princeton University Library Chronicle, 1772 June. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Tickets, 1772. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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