Lottery Tickets
Scarce Baltimore, MD Second Presbyterian Church Lottery
c. 1790 Second Presbyterian Church Lottery, in the City of Baltimore (MD), Lottery Ticket, $6 Winner, Signed “Kennedy Long”, Extremely Fine.
Second Presbyterian Church Lottery No. 1080 Balt. MD., irregular upper left corner with large top margin and bold manuscript “$6” as a Winning ticket. Ex: Russ & Jane Sears Collection.
Second Presbyterian Church: More than 200 years of Presbyterian History in Baltimore:

In 1790, application was made to the Baltimore Presbytery to organize a Second Presbyterian congregation on the east side of the city.

Dr. Patrick Allison, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, preached frequently in Fells Point where a portion of his congregation resided, but as the First Church grew, it demanded all his time and he was not able to go as frequently to East Baltimore. In his account of the “Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian Church,” written in 1793, he said: “It has been proposed at different times to form another Presbyterian Church in the Town, and raise a separate house of worship for which purpose a lot of ground was some years ago generously given by Col. John E. Howard; however the design seems to be waived for the present, though there can remain no doubt but that such a measure must become necessary in a short space.”