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MASSACHUSETTS TREASURER'S CERTIFICATES (LAWFUL MONEY) | |||||
| YEAR ENDING LAST OF MAY | ISSUED
(SUMS BORROWED) |
CANCELLED
(BURNED) |
OUTSTANDING | REDEEMED AND
IN TREASURY
END OF YEAR | HELD BY LENDERS |
| 1750 | 18,400 | 18,400 | |||
| 1751 | 9,000 | 27,400 | |||
| 1752 | 18,614 | 46,014 | |||
| 1753 | 956 | ## 24,828 | 22,142 | ||
| 1754 | 9,332 | 13,946 | 17,528 | 4,606 | 12,922 |
| 1755 | 36,508 | 5,181 | 48,855 | 13,068 | 35,787 |
| 1756 | 121,194 | 14,076 | 155,973 | 20,598 | 135,375 |
| 1757 | 94,181 | 24,121 | 226,033 | 88,186 | 137,847 |
| 1758 | 118,644 | 132,187 | 212,490 | +(35,726) | 176,764 |
| 1759 | 150,106 | 77,554 | 285,042 | +(26,013) | 259,029 |
| 1760 | 211,346 | 44,882 | 451,506 | 87,539 | 363,967 |
| 1761 | 210,597 | 156,838 | 505,265 | 52,837 | 452,428 |
| 1762 | 209,866 | # 233,799 | 481,332 | 27,015 | 454,317 |
| 1763 | 124,873 | # 116,024 | 490,181 | 45,065 | 445,116 |
| 1764 | 72,334 | 175,506 | 387,009 | 56,862 | 330,147 |
| 1765 | 131,063 | 181,654 | 336,418 | 57,129 | ## 279,289 |
| 1766 | 12,385 | 87,774 | 261,029 | 70,535 | 190,494 |
| 1767 | 197,000 | 247,029 | 211,000 | 41,307 | 169,693 |
| 1768 | 157,000 | 203,123 | 164,877 | 17,991 | 146,886 |
| 1769 | 125,850 | 160,978 | 129,749 | 18,094 | 111,655 |
| 1770 | 100,000 | 129,468 | 100,281 | 6,020 | 94,261 |
| 1771 | 88,158 | 102,543 | 85,896 | ||
| 1772 | 75,091 | 84,648 | 76,339 | ||
| 1773 | 909 | 77,248 | |||
| 1774 | 16,000 | ++ 37,078 | 56,170 | ||
| + Treasury balance not indicated as Treasury Certificates as preceeding and succeeding
ones, but presumed to be.
# New Form Notes less Old Form Notes exchanged for New. ++ Burning Committee Report, Jan. 31, 1774, Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, XVIII, 744. ## Errors in typewritten MSS corrected by editor. Sources: See Brock, Currency of the American Colonies, p. 596. | |||||