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In 1748, Benjamin Franklin organized a private lottery in Philadelphia, to fund the arming and equiping of a militia to defend against French marauders.
In 1767 John Hankock ran a lottery to fund Bostons Fainuel Hall
George Washington organized a lottery to build a road over a mountain pass.
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