January 1, 1796-Dated Federal Period, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (for the Schuylkill & Susquehanna, and Delaware & Schuylkill Canal Company), Winning Ticket with written on its face and winner's names on back, Choice Extremely Fine.

A historic ornately typeset bordered early Federal Period Lottery Ticket. It measures 2.25 x 5.5 printed on fresh, bright clean white laid period paper. It is from Philadelphia, is Signed, (Timothy) as secretary which is cross cancelled as the Ticket was paid. It is hand noted (dollars) at upper right and $100 at upper left, indicating the winner's amount in the drawing.

The Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company was a limited liability corporation founded in Pennsylvania on September 29, 1791. Vignette of a Sailing Ship, Plow and Sheaf of Wheat within an oval in the left indent border. A choice piece of Early American lottery history that has a near invisible standard cut cancel at left and appears bold in print and near new. The last example of this Lottery we offered was in our EAHA Auction of July 9, 2016, Lot 195, which sold for $480. A great looking Colonial era lottery ticket.

The Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company was a limited liability corporation founded in Pennsylvania on September 29, 1791. This project became the goal of the Society for the Improvement of Roads and Inland Navigation organized in 1789 with preeminent, Revolutionary Wartime financier Robert Morris as president, David Rittenhouse, William Smith and John Nicolson. The Society petitioned the PA. General Assembly to again survey the river routes, only this time the State acted upon the recommendations.

The company was founded for the purpose of improving river navigation which in the post-colonial United States era of the 1790s meant improving river systems, not canals. In this Pennsylvania scheme, however, two rivers, a large river, the Susquehanna and a smaller one, the Schuylkill were to be improved by clearing channels through obstructions and building dams where needed. To connect the two watersheds, the company proposed a four-mile summit level crossing at Lebanon Pennsylvania, a length of almost eighty miles between the two rivers.

The completed project was intended to be part of a navigable water route from Philadelphia to Lake Erie and the Ohio valley.

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