WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Printed lottery ticket signed ("G:o Washington"), 1768. 1 page, small oblong. Ticket no. 354 which entitles "the Possessor to whateverer PRIZE may happen to be drawn against it's Number in the Mountain Road Lottery." Washington and a neighbor, Fielding Lewis, were the driving forces behind this lottery. They hoped (vainly, as it turned out) to raise enough money for the colony to build a decent road leading to Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs in Fredericksburg County in western Virginia.