Hampden-Sydney College lottery ticket(1777)

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Ticket number 1691 for the Hampden-Sydney College [Prince Edward Co.] lottery in 1777. The lottery was designed to raise funds for permanent college structures. The ticket is signed by William Cabell, one of the College’s early trustees. Hampden-Sydney, founded in 1775, is the oldest privately chartered college in the South.

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