This is a wonderful, original Masschusetts $1 note, Samuel Henshaw, Loammi Baldwin (front); Peter Boyer (back, guaranty signature).Printed in red and black inks.Surcharge stamped in red ink on front: \"Interest PaidoneYear.\". Hole cancelled. Blue Fibers in paper.
An emission of £394,000 ($1,313,333) in legal tender bills of credit payable in Spanish milled dollars with 5% interest by December 31, 1786. This issue was authorized pursuant to the Continental Congress Resolution of March 18, 1780. Printed by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia using paper watermarked \"United States.\" The front was printed in black with border cuts by Henry Dawkins. The back was printed in black and red with border cuts and emblems from the Continental Currency issue of January 14, 1779. The cuts surrounding the emblem are by Dawkins. Notes are sometimes surcharged in red \"Interest paid one year\" and usually hole canceled upon redemption. There are two signatures on the front and a guaranty signature on the back. Denominations issued were: $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $7, $8 and $20.
Colonel Loammi Baldwin(January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in theAmerican Revolutionary War.Baldwin is known as the Father of AmericanCivil Engineering.He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of theMiddlesex Canal, but today he is perhaps best remembered for theBaldwin applewhich he developed at his farm.
In 1774 Baldwin enlisted in a regiment, and commanded the Woburn militia at theBattle of Lexington and Concordas a major. He is recorded as having described the events of April 19, 1775 as follows
\"We mustered as fast as possible. The Town turned out extraordinary, and proceeded toward Lexington.\" As a major at the time he continues \"I rode along a little before the main body, and when I was nigh Jacob Reed\'s (at present Durenville) I heard a great firing; proceeded on, soon heard that the Regulars had fired upon Lexington people and killed a large number of them. We proceeded on as fast as possible and came to Lexington and saw about eight or ten dead and numbers wounded.\"
He then, with the rest from Woburn, proceeded to Concord by way of Lincoln meeting house, ascended a hill there, and rested and refreshed themselves a little. Then follows a particular account of the action and of his own experience. He had \"several good shots,\" and proceeded on till coming between the meeting-house and Buckman\'s tavern at Lexington, with a prisoner before him, the cannon of the British began to play, the balls flying near him, and for safety he retreated back behind the meeting-house, when a ball came through near his head, and he further retreated to a meadow north of the house and lay there and heard the balls in the air and saw them strike the ground. Woburn sent to the field on that day, one hundred and eighty men. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the26th Continental Regimentcommanded by Colonel Samuel Gerrish. Here he rapidly advanced to be lieutenant-colonel, and upon Colonel Gerrish\'s retirement in August 1775, he was placed in command of the regiment, and was soon commissioned colonel.
Until the end of 1775, Baldwin and his men remained near Boston, but in April 1776, he was ordered with his command toNew York City. He took part in theBattle of Pell\'s Pointon October 18, 1776. On the night of December25–26, in the face of a violent and extremely cold storm of snow and hail, GeneralWashingtonand his armycrossed the Delawareto the New Jersey side, and fought theBattle of Trentonon the morning of December 26. Baldwin and his regiment participated in both the crossing and the fight. In 1777, Baldwin resigned from the army because of ill health.
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