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Colonial Currency, RI, 1752, Land Bank Transfer

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Rhode Island Currency

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1752 Joseph Rhodes Rhode Island Land Bank Transfer

1752, Partially-Printed Document Regarding the Transfer of Land Bank Property, Choice Very Fine.
October 6, 1752, partially printed document, 16" x 12.75", in which Joseph Rhodes of Providence has transferred land to John Clark, from the neck of the Pawtuxet (today part of Warwick and Cranston), for payment of "Four Hundred Pounds Old Tenor." Signed by Joseph Rhodes and his wife Ann Rhodes, and by witnesses Charles Waterman and Samuel Acorn Jr. The two original red wax seals are still largely intact. Docketed in two places on the back, in one of which the buyer is referred to as Capt. John Clark. There is another similar document in this sale in which the same John Clark, a slave ship owner, purchased land from the Land Bank.

Joseph Rhodes was connected with the 1772 burning of the British ship, Gaspee, in Rhode Island. The British ship had harassed residents and American ships in the area. When British officials refused to get involved, local residents burned the Gaspee while it was aground on a sandbar. The event is commemorated by a sculpted stone showing the taking of the Gaspee crew to the home of Joseph Rhodes. The phrase "old tenor" written in the document refers to a specific issue of currency -- the old issue, as opposed to the new issue.

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