The Pine Tree Shilling Tale and Mint Master Saga
A Hartford Courant fragment recounts Captain John Hull’s pine tree shillings minting in 1652 Massachusetts, his vast wealth, and a wedding scene where Betsey Sewell is weighed in coins. It also includes a moral tale The Stranger and the Maiden about charity, redemption, and angelic visitations at Christmas.
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Nathe
John Hull
Massachusetts
England
Portugal
Spain
South America
Captain Hull
Mint
Samuel Sewell
Betsey
Gov. Endicott
Mint-Master
Capt. Hull
Hulls
Jingle
Sewell
Clara
Caroline Lee Hentz
Tisa
Chaldea
Heaven
Bethlehem
Tarewell
Earth
God
Treasury Wrangle Over Woodbury Dying Speech Attack
A Westward News Letter critique dismisses Levi Woodbury’s alleged treasury report as a lie and a political trap. It attacks its dating, accuracy, and intent, arguing the document is a fake dying speech from a defeated administration. It ridicules Woodbury and warns of continued fiscal strife under Van Buren.
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Loco Papers
Treasury
van Buren
Levi Woodbury
Treasury Department
Congress
Washington
Woodbury
Lus
Department
Jackson
Heaven Born
Amos
Benton
Ewing
Woodsbury
Heras
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Hartford Courant
Panny Elssler
Westwiard News
Mr. Woodbury
U. S. Treasury
Femasa Bey