Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in Maine.  Lottery chances were sold for townships and lots in in that part of the Lincoln County area between the Penobscot and Schoodic Rivers.  Tickets removed from Lottery stub books ((M-Ar)82X) were presented to those purchasing chances.  Tickets and stubs had corresponding numbers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of certification
Notes: Presented to Cambridge (Mass.) Historical Society by Mrs. William Durant, 1917; transferred to Archives, July 16, 2004
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