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Early American currency went through several stages of development during the colonial and post-Revolutionary history of the United States. John Hull was authorized by the Massachusetts legislature to make the earliest coinage of the colony (the willow, the oak, and the pine tree shilling ) in 1652.
An 8d note in Massachusetts state currency, issued in 1778. These "codfish" bills, so-called because of the cod in the border design, were engraved and printed by Paul Revere. [1] The pound was the currency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its colonial predecessors until 1793.
In 1652, the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorized Boston silversmiths John Hull and Robert Sanderson to mint coinage. [1] Prior to 1652, the Massachusetts financial system was based on bartering and foreign coinage. The scarcity of coin currency was a problem for the growth of the New England economy.
David Rittenhouse engraved some border designs for the 10 May 1775 Continental currency [14] and 25 March 1776 Colony of New Jersey 6£ note. [15] Francis Hopkinson does not appear to have done engraving, but he is credited with the designs for border-cuts, emblems, and mottos on three issues of Continental currency in 1778–1779. [16]
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), ... In 1652, a currency shortage prompted the colony to authorize silversmith John Hull to issue coinage, ...
Shute was preparing to return to Massachusetts in 1727 when King George I died. King George II chose to give the Massachusetts governorship to William Burnet instead of renewing Shute's commission, and he renewed Dummer's commission as lieutenant governor. [40] The matter of colonial currency arose again in 1726.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay [1] was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered on October 7, 1691, by William III and Mary II, the joint monarchs of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was based in the merging of several earlier British colonies in New England.
John Hull was born on December 18, 1624, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, [1] the son of blacksmith Robert Hull and Elizabeth Storer. [2] [3] At age eleven, he immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his father, mother, and half-brother Richard Storer, [1] departing Bristol on September 28, 1635, and arriving in Boston on November 7. [4]