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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8179609, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1930 Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary Medal</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>John Hull Pine Tree Shilling</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1429833[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1429834[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Bourne Historical Society sold the medals to raise funds for the Trading Post Endowment Fund. The original Plymouth Colony Aptucxet Trading Post was built in 1627. The historical society maintained a replica of the trading post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pond believes these were the first souvenirs struck for the tercentenary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pond 15</p><p>White Metal with oxidized silver finish, 30 mm.</p><p>Whitehead and Hoag Co.</p><p>20,000 struck</p><p><br /></p><p>The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dowry is the transfer of parental property to a daughter at her marriage rather than at the owner&#039;s death.</p><p>A dowry establishes a type of conjugal fund, the nature of which may vary widely. This fund may provide an element of financial security in widowhood or against a negligent husband, and may eventually go to provide for her children.</p><p>Dowries may also go toward establishing a marital household, and therefore might include furnishings such as linens and furniture.</p><p>The dowry was a custom brought to the United States by colonists from England and elsewhere in Europe. One legend tells how John Hull, the Master of the Mint in Boston and a wealthy man, determined the dowry for his daughter Hannah&#039;s marriage to Samuel Sewall. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1429835[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hull is said to have set his 18-year-old daughter onto one side of the large scales in his warehouse. He piled shillings into the other side of the scale until he reached her weight in silver, and that was her dowry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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