Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies: Prior to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution During the last few years, considerable attention has been drawn towards the subject to which this volume is devoted. The various issues of the paper money of the American colonies, and of the Continental Congress, ex tending over a period of nearly a century, had become an attraction to many persons who had entered into the pur suit of collecting them. Naturally they sought, but mostly in vain, for the information which was to explain the origin and history of the notes, and to guide them in their investigations. Some works bearing upon the sub ject were known to be in existence, but were not generally available, while the growing desire of a closer knowledge of their contents, caused continual inquiry and search to be made for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.