Lotteries inColonial AmericaStudies in American Popular History and Culture
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Neal E. Millikan
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Millikan, Neal Elizabeth.
Lotteries in colonial America / by Neal E. Millikan.
p. cm. (Studies in American popular history and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. LotteriesUnited StatesHistory. 2. United StatesSocial life and customsTo 1775. 3. United StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 16001775. I. Title.
HG6126.M56 2011
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ISBN13: 978-0-415-88656-7 (hbk)
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Acknowledgements
This book grew out of the dissertation I completed at the University of South Carolina. I would like to thank Dr. Jessica Kross, my advisor, for her help and guidance during the dissertation process, and my dissertation committee, Dr. Larry Glickman, Dr. Connie Schulz, and Dr. David Shields, for their feedback and suggestions. Thanks also to the office staff of the USC History Department, and particularly to Melissa Kupfer and Theresa Walling for their assistance while I was a graduate student at USC. My dissertation was in turn a continuation of my thesis, so I also would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Holly Brewer at North Carolina State University for all of her help in the early stages of this project.
Thanks to the staff of the Government Documents room in Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina for all of their help during the research stage of my dissertation. Thanks also to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, where Elizabeth Pope was very helpful, and to the Library Company of Philadelphia where Connie King introduced me to Benjamin Franklins ties to several Pennsylvania lotteries.
I would like to thank Erin Gilhooly and the Gilhooly family for their friendship and for providing me with a place to stay when I did research at the New-York Historical Society. Thanks also to Jenny Woodruff for her friendship and for helping me navigate the libraries at Duke University. A big thank you to my sister, Anna Millikan, whose extensive knowledge of Excel helped me tremendously in creating the charts to track colonial lottery advertisements, and who assisted me in editing this book. And most importantly thanks to my parents, Rachel and Dean Millikan, for all of the family trips during my childhood to historical destinations that sparked my love of history, and for their encouragement throughout this process.
