Early Paper Money of America (NNP Edition)

Home page for NNP edition, with links to individual sections.|

Continental Currency:

May 10, 1775    November 29, 1775    February 17. 1776    May 9, 1776    July 22, 1776    November 2, 1776   February 26, 1777    May 20, 1777   April 11, 1778    September 26, 1778    January 14, 1779    Indents 1782-1787    Subsistence Notes 1783    Board of Treasury 1785    Robert Morris 1781-1782    Robert Morris 1783

Connecticut:

July 12, 1709      July 12, 1709 Monogrammed AR     July 12, 1709 redated May 1713 (Flowers)     July 12, 1709 redated May 1713 (Scroll)     December 1, 1724     November 7, 1727     1728 October     May 1729     July 10, 1733     July 10, 1733 redated 1735     July 10, 1733 redated May 1740     July 10, 1733 redated July 8, 1740 on the face and July 8, 1740 on the back    July 10, 1733 redated May 8, 1746    May 8, 1740      May 8, 1740 redated May 10, 1744    May 8, 1740 redated October 11, 1744    May 8, 1740 redated March 14, 1744/45          May 8, 1740 redated May 8, 1746     January 8, 1755    March 13, 1755      August 27, 1755     October 9, 1755     March 8, 1758    February 7, 1759     March 8, 1759     May 10, 1759     March 13, 1760     March 26, 1761     March 4, 1762     May 12, 1763     March 8, 1764     May 10, 1770     October 10, 1771     June 1, 1773     January 2, 1775      May 10, 1775    June 1, 1775         July 1, 1775           June 7, 1776       June 19, 1776     October 11, 1777     March 1, 1780   (June 1780)   June 1, 1780    July 1. 1780     

Special Issuers: 1732 New London Society     (Undated) Elias Shipman     1792 Union Bank in New London     1792 August 6 and September 26 Union Bank in New London     1792 Hartford Bank     1792 etc., New Haven Bank     1794 December 3 Chamber of Commerce in New Haven     1795 Middletown Bank     1796 Norwich Bank     1796 September 12 and 1799 May 10 Norwich Bank     1799 Hartford & New Haven Turnpike     

Delaware:

April 23, 1723 Act    November 2, 1723 Act    1729    March 1, 1734    December 1, 1739    February 28, 1746    January 1, 1753    May 1, 1756    March 1, 1758    May 1, 1758    June 1, 1759    May 31, 1760    January 1, 1776    May 1, 1777   

Special Issuers: January 1, 1777 (William Hemphill)    January 8, 1777 (Caleb Sheward)    April 9, 1777 (William Buchanan)    1795, etc. (Bank of Delaware)

Florida:

Special Issuers: Unknown 177-

Georgia:

1735-1750 Sola Bills    1735-1745 Oglethorpe Bills    1755    May 1, 1760    1762    March 25, 1762    July 8, 1765    1766-7 Written Dates    1768-70 Tax Certificates    1769 Lighthouse Certificates 1773    (1774)    1775    1775 Unknown Savannah Issuer    1776 and 1777 Georgia Dollar Emissions     1776 Sterling Denominations    1776 Light Blue Seal Dollar Denominations    1776 Maroon Seal    1776 Orange or Green Seal    1776 Fractional Dollar Denominations    1776 Blue-Green Seal    1776 Gold Option    (1776) Undated    1777 No Resolution Date    1777 June 8, 1777 Resolution    1777 September 10, 1777 Resolution    1778    January 9, 1782    October 16, 1786

La Louisiane:

Special Emissions: Banque Generale 1716-1718    Banque Royale January 10, 1719, etc.    Banque Royale January 1, 1720    Banque Royale July 1, 1720    Banque Royale September 2, 1720    Compagnie des Indies Storehouse Orders 1721-1722    Compagnie des Indies Billets de Cartes 1722-1723    Compagnie des Indies Billets de Caisse 1726, etc.    Treasury Notes 1728    Billets de Cartes 1735, etc.    Billet de Cartes 1750    Public Bons or Treasury Notes 1756-1763    Solde de Troupe (1760-1765)    Spanish Certificates of Credit 1775, etc.    Jospeh Bichot 1777-1779    Spanish Billetes April 12, 1782    Private Bons 1785-1810    Public Bons and Certificates of Debt 1789-1801    Andres Alemonester circa 1790    Spanish Billetes June 24, 1795    Reginald Loisel June 1, 1803    Samuel Solomon December 1, 1804    Francois Liberge May 2, 1805

Maryland:

1733    June 2, 1740    October 1, 1748    April 6, 1751    July 14, 1756    January 1, 1767    March 1, 1770    April 10, 1774    July 26, 1775 Session    December 7, 1775 Session    August 14, 1776 Session    June 8, 1780 Act    June 28, 1780 Act    October 17, 1780 Act    May 10, 1781 Act    August 8, 1781    

Special Issuers: 1761 June 23 Stephen West    1777 July 18 Howe & Seyl    1791, etc. Bank of Maryland    1792, etc. Bank of the United States (Baltimore Office)    1797, etc. Bank of Baltimore    1800, etc. Bank of Columbia

Massachusetts:

December 10, 1690    February 3, 1690/91    November 21, 1702    November 21, 1708    May 31, 1710    May 31, 1710 redated 1711    October 14, 1713    October 14, 1713 Low Denomination Plate    October 14, 1713 Middle Denomination Plate    May 26, 1714    May 26, 1714 High Denomination Plate    June 1722    February 4, 1736/37    February 4, 1736/37 redated 1737    1737    January 15, 1741/42    January 15, 1741/42 redated 1742    June 20, 1744    1750    May 25, 1775    July 8, 1775    August 18, 1775    December 7, 1775    June 18, 1776    September 17, 1776    October 18, 1776    November 17, 1776    October 16, 1778    1779    May 5, 1780 Act    1781 Written Dates

Special Issuers: Private Bank 1686    John Merrett 1733    Merchant's Notes November 30, 1733    Silver Bank August 1, 1740    Manufactory Bills (Land Bank) September 9, 1740    Bank Bills May 1, 1741    Massachusetts Bank July 5, 1784, etc.    Massachusetts Bank December 2, 1784    Massachusetts Bank June 21, 1785    Massachusetts Bank September 21, 1789    Massachusetts Bank 1799    Bank of the United States 1792    Union Bank 1792    Merrimack Bank 1795, etc.    Nantucket Bank 1795, etc.    James Leach July 1, 1796    Portland Bank 1799, etc.    Essex Bank 1799, etc.

New Hampshire: 

1709    May 20, 1717    May 20, 1717 backdated to 1714    May 20, 1717 redated 1717    May 20, 1717 redated 1722    May 20, 1717 redated 1729    May 20, 1717 successively redated 1724, 1725, 1726, and 1727    April 1, 1737    April 1, 1737 redated August 7, 1740    April 3, 1742    April 3, 1742 redated 1743    April 3, 1742 redated 1743 and February 1744/45    April 3, 1755    April 3, 1755 redated January 1, 1756    April 3, 1755 redated June 1, 1756    1759    March 1, 1760    January 1, 1761    May 1, 1761    (July 1) 1762    January 1, 1762    January 1, 1763    June 20, 1775    July 25, 1775    August 24, 1775    November 3, 1775    January 26, 1776    June 28, 1776    July 3, 1776    1777 with Handwritten Date    April 29, 1780

Special Issuers: Merchants' Notes (December 25, 1734)    Unknown Issuer (January 6, 1787)    New Hampshire Bank (1792, etc.)

New Jersey:

July 1, 1709    July 14, 1711    January 24, 1716/17    March 25, 1724   March 25, 1728    March 25, 1733    March 25, 1737    July 2, 1746    May 15, 1755    September 8, 1755    January 26, 1756    June 22, 1756    April 12, 1757    June 14, 1757    November 20, 1757    May 1, 1758    October 20, 1758    April 10, 1759    April 12, 1760    April 23, 1761    April 8, 1762    December 31, 1763    April 16, 1764    February 20, 1776    March 25, 1776    June 9, 1780 Act    1781 (January 9, 1781 Act)    1784 (December 20, 1783 Act)    1786  

Special Issuers: Burlington Nail Manufactory (August 29, 1787)    Reuben Chadwick (May 3, 179?)    W. & R. Colfax (July 4, 1794)    Colhoun & Brush (August 14, 1787 and November 7, 1787)    James Craft (August 6, 1776 and October 11, 1776)    Isaac Craig (April 21, 1777)    Borough of Elizabeth (March 25, 1790)    First Presbyterian Church at Newark (December 16, 1790)    Moore Furman (November 1, 1776)    Hibernia Furnace (November 1, 1768)    Hibernia Furnace (May 1, 1774)    Azariah Hunt ((July 26, 1786 and December 3, 1787)    Isaac L. Milnor (December 1, 1787)    City of New Brunswick (January 7, 1791)    City of New Brunswick (March 10, 1796)    Corporation of Perth Amboy (February 10, 1792)    Seeley & Merseilles (January 19, 1787 and December 12, 1787)    Richard Smith and Samuel How (March 20, 1764)    The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (January 1, 1794) 

New York: May 31, 1709    November 1, 1709 (Shilling)    November 1, 1709 (Silver)    July 20, 1711    July 1, 1714    July 5, 1715    November 28, 1717    November 10, 1720    July 2, 1723    July 10, 1724    July 22, 1724    November 16, 1726    October 20, 1730    November 15, 1734    December 10, 1737    October 20, 1739    May 10, 1746    July 21, 1746    November 25, 1747    March 25, 1755    May 12, 1755    September 15, 1755    February 16, 1756    April 20, 1756    April 15, 1758    April 2, 1759    April 21, 1760    February 16, 1771    September 2, 1775    March 5, 1776    August 13, 1776    June 15, 1780 Act    March 27, 1781 Act    April 18, 1786    February 8, 1788

City and Private Notes (1774-1776): [New York City] August 25, 1774    August 2, 1775    January 6, 1776    March 5, 1776    [Albany City and County Commission of Correspondence] June 22, 1775    February 17, 1776    [Unknown Issuer] June 6, 1776    [Van Clee & Smith] July 5, 1776

Banking Organization Issuers: Bank of New York (1784, etc.)    Bank of the United States, New York Office (1792, etc.)    Bank of Albany (1792, etc.)    Bank of Columbia (1793, etc.)    Manhattan Company (1799, etc.)

Small Change Note Issuers (1789-1799): William Adams    City of Albany    N. Aldridge    J.H. & W. Baker    E. Bicknell & J. Becker    Egbert Bogardus    W. Y. Burrough    Cayuga Bridge Company    John Clark    Constitutional Society    William Cooper    M. Croswill & Co.    Edward Dale    Daniel Davis    Davis & Clark    R. Davis & J. Schoonhoven    Stephen Day & Son    Samuel DeRiemer    Genesee Company    German Reformed Church of Schohary    Geroge & Thomas Hale    City of Hudson    J. & A. Hunt    Janes & Dole    Corporation of Kingston    Lansinghburgh Museum    Lutheran Church in Schoharie    C. McNeil    Benijah Morris    City of New York    New York Manufacturing Society    Ananias Platt    John Portens    J. Porter    City of Poughkeepsie    Presbyterian Congregation of Ballston    Presbyterian Congregation in Troy    John Prince    William Radclift & Co.    Reformed Dutch Church of Canajohary    Reformed Dutch Church of Linlithgow    Reformed Dutch Church at Schenectady    Reformed Dutch Church at Stone Arabia    Reformed Dutch Church in Herkemertown    James Rogers    Isaac Schultz    Shepard & Allen    David Smith    Society of Mechanics at Hudson    Solomon Tryon    Union Society    Walsh & Loudon    Walsh & McAuley    F. W. Wood    Insufficiently Identified

North Carolina:

1712/13    1715    October 19, 1722 Act    November 27, 1729 Act    1734/35    1735    April 4, 1748    March 9, 1754    1756-57    May 28, 1757    November 21, 1757 Session Act    May 4, 1758    December 22, 1758 Act    July 14, 1760 Act    April 23, 1761 Act    December 1768 Act    December 1771 Act    August 21, 1775 Session Act    April 2, 1776    1778 (August 8, 1778 Act)    May 15, 1779 Act    1780 (April 17, 1780 Session Act)    May 10, 1780 Act    May 17, 1783 Act    December 29, 1785 Act

Special Issuers: William Borden (c. 1737-1747)    James Murray (1757 with Written Date)    Joseph Ross (January 1800, etc.)

Northwest Territory:

Compagnie de Scioto 1790    Robert Taitt 1793    Northwest Territory (circa 1800)

Pennsylvania:

April 2, 1723    January 17, 1723/24    March 25, 1726    September 15, 1729   April 10, 1731    August 10, 1739    August 1, 1744    August 1, 1746    May 16, 1749    October 1, 1755    January 1, 1756    October 1, 1756    March 10, 1757    July 1, 1757    May 20, 1758    April 25, 1759    June 21, 1759    May 1, 1760    June 18, 1764    June 15, 1767    March 1, 1769    March 10, 1769    March 20, 1771    April 3, 1772    March 20, 1773    October 1, 1773    March 25, 1775    April 10, 1775    July 20, 1775    October 25, 1775    December 8, 1775    April 25, 1776    April 10, 1777 in Black    April 10, 1777 in Red and Black    April 29, 1780    June 1, 1780    April 20, 1781    March 21, 1783 Act    March 16, 1785 Act

Special Issuers: Evan Morgan (June 1729)    Joseph Gray (May 1746)    Philadelphia Merchants (December 1766)    Ignace Labate (October 25, 1775)    Large & Hartshorne (March 25, 1776)    George Slake (January 14, 1777)    Joseph Ogden (January 18, 1777)    William Milnor (January 20, 1777)    Joseph Sommerville (February 1, 1777)    Robert Morris (1781-82, etc.)    Bank of North America First Style (1782, etc.)    Bank of North America Second Style (1782, etc.)    Bank of North America Third Style (1782, etc.)    Robert Morris (1785-1786)    Bank of North America (August 6, 1789)    John Wray and James Lamberton (September 5, 1789)    William Peterson (October 1, 1789)    Fred Hubley (December 13, 1789)    Peter Morgan (December 16, 1789)    John Calder (December 16, 1789)    Philip Boehm (circa 1789)    Fishing Committee (July 15, 1791)    Bank of the United States First Type (1791, etc.)    Bank of the United States Second Type (1791, etc.)    Bank of the United States Third Type (1791, etc.)    Bank of the United States Post Notes (1791, etc.)    Bank of the United States Branch Offices (1791, etc.)    Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Navigation Company (March 1793, etc.)    Bank of Pennsylvania (March 1793, etc.)

Rhode Island:

August 16, 1710    July 5, 1715    July 5, 1715 redated 1721    July 5, 1715 redated 1724    July 5, 1715 redated 1726    June 14, 1726    July 5, 1715 / June 14, 1726 both redated 1728    July 5, 1715 / June 14, 1726 both redated 1731    July 5, 1715 / June 14, 1726 both redated 1733    July 5, 1715 redated 1737    August 15, 1737    August 15, 1737 redated 1738    August 22, 1738    December 2, 1740    February 2, 1741/42    February 14, 1743/44    February 14, 1743/44 redated 1744/45    February 14, 1743/44 redated 1745    February 14, 1743/44 redated 1746    February 14, 1743/44 redated 1746/47    February 14, 1743/44 redated 1747/48    March 18, 1750/51    March 18, 1750/51 redated 1755    February 27, 1756    August 1756    May 8, 1758    December 23, 1758    March 15, 1759    April 4, 1759    June 23, 1759    March 10, 1760    May 12, 1760    March 20, 1762    April 10, 1762    May 8, 1762    November 1, 1762    March 1, 1766    February 28, 1767    May 3, 1775    June 16, 1775    June 29, 1775    November 6, 1775    January 15, 1776    March 18, 1776    September 5, 1776    1777 Written Dates    May 22, 1777    1778-9 Written Dates    June 1780    July 2, 1780    October 1782    May 1786    Providence Bank 1791, etc.    Bank of Rhode Island 1795, etc.    Bank of Bristol 1800, etc.    Washington Bank 1800, etc. / August 22, 1800

South Carolina:

May 8, 1703 Act    July 5, 1707 Act    February 14, 1707/08 Act    April 24, 1708 Act    March 1, 1710/11 Act    November 10, 1711 Act    June 7, 1712 Act    August 27, 1715 Act    March 24, 1715/16 Act    June 30, 1716 Act    August 4, 1716 Act    February 20, 1718/19 Act    June 18, 1720 Act    December 10, 1720 Act    1723    1731    August 20, 1731 Act    March 5, 1736/37 Act    April 5, 1740 Act    September 19, 1740 Act    June 30, 1748    1750-1769 Written Dates    May 16, 1752 Act    July 6, 1757 Act    1760 First Issue    1760 Second Issue    July 25, 1761    May 29, 1762 Act    1767 Written Dates    January 1, 1770    April 7, 1770    April 10, 1774    June 1, 1775    June 10, 1775    November 15, 1775 Order    March 6, 1776 Resolve    October 19, 1776 Ordinance    1777 (December 23, 1776 act)    February 14, 1777    April 10, 1778    February 8, 1779 Ordinance    1786    May 1, 1786    1787    1788    

Special Issuers: Traders and Planters Bank (1730)    Promissory Notes of Citizens (April-May 1775)    Thomas Elfe (Undated)    William Baird (Undated)    Henry Patrick (December 1, 1775)    City of Charleston (1786)    City of Charleston (1788)    City of Charleston (July 6, 1789)    Bank of South Carolina, Pound Issue (1792, etc.)    Bank of the United States (Charleston Office, 1792, etc.)    City of Charleston (October 9, 1793)    Bank of South Carolina, Dollar Issue (After 1793)

Vermont:

February 1781

Virginia:

June 1755    December 11, 1755    March 1756    June 8, 1757    April 12, 1758    October 12, 1758    April 5, 1759    November 21, 1759    March 11, 1760    May 24, 1760    April 7, 1762    1770 (November 7, 1769 Act)    July 11, 1771    April 1, 1773 James River Bank Forms    March 4, 1773 Act (September 1773)    July 17, 1775 Ordinance Small Size Notes    July 17, 1775 Ordinance Large Size Notes    September 1, 1775 James River Bank Forms    May 6, 1776 Ordinance    October 7, 1776    May 5, 1777    October 20, 1777    May 4, 1778 Act with Handwritten Date    May 4, 1778 Act with Printed Date    October 5, 1778    May 3, 1779    May 1, 1780 Act with Handwritten Date    July 14, 1780    July 25, 1780    October 16, 1780 Act with Printed Back    October 16, 1780 Act for Clothing the Army    March 1, 1781    May 7, 1781   

Special Issuers: F. James Doudas, May 5, 1777   John Hough, Jr. (Undated)    John King January 1, 1778    Robert Morris 1785-1786    Bank of Alexandria, 1793, etc.    Bank of the United States (Norfolk Office) 1795, etc.