Early Paper Money of America / South Carolina / 1750-1769 Written Dates

Early Paper Money of America (NNP Edition)|

Indented engraved Public Orders or Tax Certificates of the Public Treasurer payable to bearer and issued for circulation to meet annual Colony expense and receivable for taxes in succeeding periods and with specific invalidity dates. Elaborately engraved backs with JACOB MOTTE P. TREASURER during his incumbency. Authorized under the taxing acts of May 31, 1750; May 17, 1751; May 1753; May 11, 1754; May 20, 1755; July 6, 1756; May 1757; May 19, 1758; April 7, 1759; July 31, 1760; July 30, 1761; May 29, 1762; Oct. 6, 1764; April 6, 1765; July 2, 1766; May 28, 1767; April 12, 1768; and Aug. 23, 1769. No detail has been found covering Tax Certificates which were issued from 1733 to 1750. Signers were Thomas Bee, Thomas Blake, William Blake, Samuel Brailsford, Miles Brewton,. Daniel Doyley, William Drayton, Alexander Fraser, Thomas Gadsden, Daniel Huger, Benjamin Guerard, Rawlins Lowndes, John Mathews, John McQueen, Arthur Middleton (signer of the Declaration of Independence), Jacob Motte, David Oliphant, John Parker, Peter Porcher, Jeremiah Savage, Benjamin Simons, Peter Taylor, Benjamin Waring, and William Wragg.

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£50 Good $2,530, Very Good $3,162 Stack’s May, 2004