The Virginia Gazette

July 21, 1768. Number 115. Page 3, Column 4

A SCHEME of a LOTTERY,

For raising the sum of nine hundred pounds, to make a road over the mountain to the warm and hot springs of August county.

1 Prize of £1000 is £1000
2 of 500 is 1000
4 of 250 is 1000
5 of 100 is 500
50 of 50 is 2500
62 Prizes £6000
4938 Blanks.

6000 Tickets at 20s. = £6000

15 per cent. to be deducted from the Prizes.

The said LOTTERY will be drawn at Fredericksburg, under the management and direction of Messrs. Charles Dick, Charles Yates, John Stewart, Henry Mitchell and John Glassell, or whom tickets may be had.