New Hampshire Currency
Exceedingly Rare 1743 New Hampshire Mortgage Document Backing Borrowed “Bills of Credit... according to the Tenor of the said Acts” Colonial Currency Notes
December 1, 1743, Partially-Printed, New Hampshire, Currency-Related Mortgage Document, Very Good or better.
This document measures 12.5” x 15”, and is dated December 1,1743, printed on period laid paper, with an indented or “scalloped” top edge, as issued. This rare document is fully clear and readable, except perhaps for two or three words, appearing in overall good condition. However, there are separations at the folds which were reinforced on the reverse many decades ago with old archival fiber tape that was familiar to collectors at the time. Besides the docket reading, "Isaac Libby's Mortgage - To The Trustees," there is a record beneath indicating that certain payments being made. The document reads, in small part:

"...Between Isaac Libbey, Sadler of Dover in the Province of New-Hampshire... And Theodore Atkinson... John Gage and Clement Jackson Esquire... are appointed Trustees, and enabled to take Security of the respective Borrowers of said Bills, according to the Tenor of the said Acts. That the said Isaac Libbey for... the Sum of Fifty Pounds in the said Bills of Credit to him in hand paid... hath Given, Granted, Bargained, Sold, Aliened, Enfeoffed, Conveyed and Confirmed... All That tract of land Scituate in Dover aforesd containing Thirty five Acres bounded Northerly by land of Samuel Varnes Easterly by land of Samuel Varnes and John Wentworth... also one other piece of land in Dover aforesd Containing Ten acres and lyeth on the north east side of the Road that leads to Rochester...." And three or four more lines.

This is the first such historic, New Hampshire, Mortgage Backed “Currency” related document, with text linking the payments to the said official Act. In years past, we have offered similar style examples from Rhode Island, but this is a “first” being related to the history and use of Paper Money in New Hampshire.