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Frost Currency collection (Ms.2012.031)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Delaware Currency

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 20 Shillings, indented bill, Delaware. Number: (illegible) Signed: (illegible). Printed: B. Franklin and D. Hall.
1759 June 1

Series 2. Rhode Island Currency

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 2 6 Pence, Colony of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 2572. Signed: John Dexter
1775 November 6
Box 1, Folder 3 5 Shillings, Colony of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 3483. Signed: John Cole, John G. Wanton, Tho. Greene. Printed: John Carter.
1776 January 15
Box 1, Folder 4 16th of a Dollar, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 7979 Signed: G. Wanton, Jos. Clarke
1776 September 5
Box 1, Folder 5 1 Dollar, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 430. Signed: A Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers
1780 July 2
Box 1, Folder 6 3 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 430. Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers
1780 July 2
Box 1, Folder 7 4 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 430. Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers
1780 July 2
Box 1, Folder 8 20 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 430. Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers
1780 July 2
Box 1, Folder 9 20 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No. 659. Signed. C. Harris, M. Bowler. Printed: Hall and Sellers
1780 July 2
Box 1, Folder 10 6 Pence, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 11,365. Signed: S. Allen, Job Comstock
1786
Box 1, Folder 11 1 Shilling, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 9292. Signed: N. Knight, S. Allen
1786
Box 1, Folder 12 30 Shillings, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 7317. Signed: Job Comstock, Elijah Cobb, N. Knight. Printed: Southwick and Barber
1786
Box 1, Folder 13 1 Dollar bill, The Grocers and Producers Bank, Providence. No number.
18??
Box 1, Folder 14 1 Dollar, The Rhode Island Central Bank, East Greenwich. "to pay J B Wood or bearer" Numbered: 226. B. (signed: W. Casey)
1814 July 6
Box 1, Folder 15 1 Dollar, 75 Cents, The Mechanics & Manufacturers Bank, Providence. No 41.
1853 April 6
Box 1, Folder 16 2 Dollar bill, High Street Bank, Providence. No number
1861 March 10
Box 1, Folder 17 1 Dollar bill, The Manufacturers National Bank, Providence. Numbered: A488199. 7915. 1283, series 1875
1865 July 1
Box 1, Folder 18 1 Dollar bill, The Phenix National Bank, Providence. Numbered: 797790. 2009
1865 July 1
Box 1, Folder 19 2 Dollar bill, Old National Bank of Providence. Numbered 2774. A830878. 1151, series 1875
1865 July 1
Box 1, Folder 20 1 Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce, State of Rhode Island. Numbered: A365645. 1401. 1366, series 1875
1865 August 1
Box 1, Folder 21 20 Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce of Providence. Numbered: B364065. 8935. 1366
1865 August 1
Box 1, Folder 22 1 Dollar bill, American National Bank of Providence. Numbered B306472. 9268. 1472, series 1875
1865 August 15
Box 1, Folder 23 10 Dollar bill, The Roger Williams National Bank of Providence. Numbered: D45639. 1587. 1506, series 1875
1865 October 2
Box 1, Folder 24 5 Dollar bill, The National Exchange Bank of Providence. Numbered: N68732(E?). 41435. 1339.
1885 June 8
Box 1, Folder 25 10 Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce of Providence. Numbered 50835. 1366
1905 May 30
Box 1, Folder 26 10 Dollar bill, The Blackstone Canal National Bank of Providence. Numbered: K246762D, series of 902. N1328. 38054.
1905 June 4
Box 1, Folder 27 10 Dollar bill, Rhode Island Hospital National Bank of Providence. Numbered: A009937. 13901
1929

Series 3. Rhode Island Records

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 28 Rhode Island Land Bond, Abraham Clark of Glocester borrowing 63 shillings in Rhode Island notes of the March 18, 1750 issue. The excahnge rate is noted not in money but in weights of silver and weights of gold.
1751 December 19
Box 1, Folder 29 Act and Laws of His Majesty's Colony of Rhode-Island, Pages 89-90. Printed at Newport, RI, in 1752, by James and Ann Franklin.
Contents Note: Includes an act regarding the penalty of death for counterfeiting the Bills of Credit emitted by the Colony.
1752
Oversize 1X Deed from Joseph Rhodes, to Captain John Clark for 2 lots of land in Pawtuxet for which he paid "Four Hundred Pounds Old Tenor" Signed: Joseph Rhodes, Ann Rhodes, Charles Waterman, Samuel Acorn, Jr.
1752 October 6
Oversize 1X The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Vol. XX, No. 1020, Saturday. Written at top of front page: Capt Hopkins. Printed: John Carter.
Contents Note: Front page article on the estimated taxes collected by Congress.
1783 July 19
Oversize 1X Bond, City of Providence. Blank. With certificate of authenticity from Wall Street Creations
18??