Colonial currency : Delaware, 1776

Colonial currency : Delaware, 1776

Printed by James Adams 1776

3 items ; 9 x 7 cm.

MSS 189

Signers: John McKinly and Thomas Collins (all three); Boaz Manlove (the 2 twenty-shilling notes); and James Sykes (the four-shilling note). McKinly a member of Delaware's Committee of Correspondence, the Committee for Instructions to Delaware's Continental Congress Delegates and in 1775 he became President of the Council of Safety. In September of 1775 he was named Brigadier General of the three battalions of the New Castle County Militia. Collins was a member of the Delaware Constitutional Convention of 1776 and was elected to two terms in the Legislative Council beginning with the 1776/77 session. Manlove was from Sussex Co., Delaware; Sykes served in the Delaware General Assembly and was a Continental Congressman from Delaware.
2 twenty-shilling notes (numbered in ink 9167 & 43915) and 1 four-shilling note (numbered in ink 94570)
On verso: To counterfeit is death
See Eric P. Newman. The early paper money of America, p. 101 and p. 468: " DE paper money was generally about 10% less in value than the mildly fluctuating value of PA paper money up to the beginning of the American Revolution."
Issue of 1 January 1776 (English arms turned sideways on 4-shilling note)
Gift of Col. J. F. Reynolds Scott, Delaware Society
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