Imprint Record

Scheme of the Petersburg Church Lottery.

• Imprint Number: 1791.031
• Title: Petersburg Church Lottery. Scheme of a lottery, for raising the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds, to be applied toward paying the expence of building a church in the town of Petersburg.
• Sequence Number: 31
• Year: 1791
• Place Issued: Petersburg
• Issuing Press: William Prentis
• Author: Trustees of Petersburg Episcopal Church.
• Notes: Signed in print by Thomas G. Peachy and six others; dated: "Petersburg, March 22, 1791." Proceeds were used to finance, in part, building an Episcopal church on Courthouse Hill.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; the only press then operating in Petersburg was that of William Prentis, hence the attribution here.
  No copy found during filming of the Early American Imprints Series, so not filmed.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • William Prentis

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