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1264: America’s First Paper Money

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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December 10, 1690. A failed attack on Quebec, Canada leads to Massachusetts Colony creating the first paper currency in the Western Hemisphere. This episode originally aired in 2024.

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Thank you. Do it the right way with Indeed. It's the early hours of June 28, 1689, in the colonial village of Dover, New Hampshire.

0:54.0

In a simple one-room wood cabin, a woman of the

0:57.1

indigenous Pentecook tribe creeps past the sleeping bodies of an English farmer and his wife.

1:02.6

She stops briefly by their bed, checking to make sure they're deeply asleep. Then she keeps moving

1:08.4

silently toward the cabin's locked door.

1:11.9

Yesterday evening, the Pentecook woman arrived in this English colony asking for shelter.

1:17.2

The farmer and his wife were happy to offer her a blanket by the fire for the night,

1:21.6

but the Pentecook woman had no intention of sleeping.

1:25.0

Thirteen years ago, English colonists captured 400 of the Pentecook and sold them into slavery.

1:31.3

Many families were separated forever, and the Pentecook have never forgotten what the English did.

1:36.7

So tonight, it's time for revenge.

1:40.2

The Pentecook woman tiptoes through the darkness, but kicks over a pot that's been left near the fire.

1:46.6

The noise seems deafening in the quiet of the night, and she freezes, desperately thinking of an excuse to explain why she's up and creeping around the cabin in the dark.

1:55.8

But the Englishman and his wife don't wake up. Instead, the farmer only turns over and then resumes snoring.

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