Frost Currency collection

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1 Page 1 of 9 Frost Currency collection Box A Brown University Providence, RI Tel: [email protected] Published in 2012 Brown University Library Collection overview Title: Frost Currency collection Date range: Creator: Frost, Michael Freezy, Extent: Abstract: Language of materials: Repository: Collection number: 0.25 Linear feet This collection contains examples of 26 bank notes issued in Rhode Island between , one bank note issued in Delaware in 1759, and 5 documents related to the history of 18th century Rhode Island. English Ms Scope & content This collection contains 26 pieces of currency, of varying types, issued in Rhode Island between , one bank note issued in Delaware in 1759, and 5 documents related

2 Page 2 of 9 to the fiscal history of 18th century Rhode Island. The Delaware note was printed by Benjamin Franklin, whose brother James Franklin founded the first printing shop in Newport, Rhode Island. Arrangement This collection is organized in three series: Delaware Currency, Rhode Island Currency, and Rhode Island Records. The items are arranged chronologically within each series. Biographical Note The bank notes and documents in this collection were collected by Michael Freezy Frost. He was born in 1932 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and died on February 08, 2012 in McAllen, Texas. He attended Tulsa University and Rice University. In 1953, he married Sandra Decker, and in 1961 he moved his family to McAllen and began to work in the produce industry, first as a farmer and then as a shipper. Access & use Access to the collection: Use of materials: Preferred citation: Contact information: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the Brown University Library. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them. Frost Currency collection Frost Currency collection, Ms ,

3 Page 3 of 9 Administrative information About the collection Box A Brown University Providence, RI Tel: [email protected] Aquisition: This collection was a gift from Cynthia Frost in memory of her father Michael Freezy Frost on June 6, Custodial history: About the finding aid Author: Encoding: Descriptive rules: Finding aid prepared by Karen Eberhart This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Search terms Names: Subjects: B. Franklin and D. Hall (Firm)--Imprints Carter, John, Imprints Franklin, Ann, 1695? Imprints Franklin, Benjamin, Imprints, 1759 Franklin, James, Imprints Franklin, James, 1732? Imprints Frost, Cynthia Hall & Sellers--Imprints Southwick & Barber--Imprints Bank notes Banks and banking--rhode Island--Providence Money--Rhode Island

4 Page 4 of 9 Paper money--rhode Island Printing--Rhode Island--History

5 Page 5 of 9 Inventory Series 1, Delaware Currency, Container Description Date 1 20 Shillings, indented bill, Delaware. Number: (illegible) Signed: (illegible). Printed: B. Franklin and D. Hall June 1 Series 2, Rhode Island Currency, Container Description Date Pence, Colony of Rhode-Island. Numbered: Signed: John Dexter 5 Shillings, Colony of Rhode-Island. Numbered: Signed: John Cole, John G. Wanton, Tho. Greene. Printed: John Carter. 16th of a Dollar, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed: G. Wanton, Jos. Clarke 1 Dollar, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed: A Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers 3 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers 4 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers 1775 November January September 5

6 Page 6 of Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed: A. Comstock, C. Harris. Printed: Hall and Sellers 20 Dollars, State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. No Signed. C. Harris, M. Bowler. Printed: Hall and Sellers 6 Pence, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: 11,365. Signed: S. Allen, Job Comstock 1 Shilling, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: Signed: N. Knight, S. Allen 30 Shillings, State of Rhode-Island. Numbered: Signed: Job Comstock, Elijah Cobb, N. Knight. Printed: Southwick and Barber 1 Dollar bill, The Grocers and Producers Bank, Providence. No number. 1 Dollar, The Rhode Island Central Bank, East Greenwich. "to pay J B Wood or bearer" Numbered: 226. B. (signed: W. Casey) 1 Dollar, 75 Cents, The Mechanics & Manufacturers Bank, Providence. No Dollar bill, High Street Bank, Providence. No number ?? 1814 July April March 10

7 Page 7 of Dollar bill, The Manufacturers National Bank, Providence. Numbered: A , series Dollar bill, The Phenix National Bank, Providence. Numbered: Dollar bill, Old National Bank of Providence. Numbered A , series Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce, State of Rhode Island. Numbered: A , series Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce of Providence. Numbered: B Dollar bill, American National Bank of Providence. Numbered B , series Dollar bill, The Roger Williams National Bank of Providence. Numbered: D , series Dollar bill, The National Exchange Bank of Providence. Numbered: N68732(E?) Dollar bill, National Bank of Commerce of Providence. Numbered Dollar bill, The Blackstone Canal National Bank of Providence July July July August August August October June May June 4

8 Page 8 of 9 27 Numbered: K246762D, series of 902. N Dollar bill, Rhode Island Hospital National Bank of Providence. Numbered: A Series 3, Rhode Island Records, Container Description Date Oversize 1X, Oversize 1X, Rhode Island Land Bond, Abraham Clark of Glocester borrowing 63 shillings in Rhode Island notes of the March 18, 1750 issue. The excahnge rate is noted not in money but in weights of silver and weights of gold. Act and Laws of His Majesty's Colony of Rhode-Island, Pages Printed at Newport, RI, in 1752, by James and Ann Franklin. Scope and Contents note Includes an act regarding the penalty of death for counterfeiting the Bills of Credit emitted by the Colony. Deed from Joseph Rhodes, to Captain John Clark for 2 lots of land in Pawtuxet for which he paid "Four Hundred Pounds Old Tenor" Signed: Joseph Rhodes, Ann Rhodes, Charles Waterman, Samuel Acorn, Jr. The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Vol. XX, No. 1020, Saturday. Written at top of front page: Capt Hopkins. Printed: John Carter December October July 19

9 Page 9 of 9 Oversize 1X, Scope and Contents note Front page article on the estimated taxes collected by Congress. Bond, City of Providence. Blank. With certificate of authenticity from Wall Street Creations 18??