The text reads:

         [I] do acknowledge to have received from Messrs. Michael Hillegas, Benjamin Fuller and Matthew Clarkson Managers of the State Lottery [Ten]  Tickets for sale on Account of the said Lottery, and [I] do hereby promise to pay unto the said Michael Hillegas, Benjamin Fuller and Matthew Clarkson for Spanish milled Dollars for each of said Tickets, or for as many as shall not be returned to them by nine o’Clock of the [Second] Day of [May 1785] (signed) Jasper Moylan”

       Jasper Moylan, was among the most prominent attorneys in 18^th century America. He was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1757. He arrived in Philadelphia late in 1777, having been educated in both Spain and Paris, France at St. Sulpice and St. Omer Seminaries where he had for several years studied for the priesthood. After arriving in Philadelphia First Troop militia unit, founded the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants in 1790, served as director and co-founder of the Law Library of Philadelphia, housed in Independence Hall and was instrumental in implementing the first Library System in the state of Pennsylvania. His letters exchanged with Thomas Jefferson are often cited as being the impetus behind the founding of the United States Supreme Court. He was also one of the original founders of the Insurance Company of North America in 1792 (which later became Cigna Insurance). He was an esteemed member of the Gloucester Fox Hunt Club, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, The Society of the Cincinnati, and was Captain of the Philadelphia Dance Assemblies.  A philanthropist and a dedicated bibliophile he, at the time of his death, February 11, 1812, had amassed what was considered the greatest private library in the New World.

       Moylan was held in high estimation for his wit and social qualities. He and his two brothers Stepehen and John were known as the “three polite Irishmen.”

       Jasper Moylan was twice married, first to Eleanor Barry (sister of Commodore John Barry), father of the United States Navy). Eleanor gave birth to Jasper Moylan II in 1786. She died in Philadelphia of yellow fever in 1787. In 1788 Jasper married Isabella Finney Hoopes Mease (widow of Clothier General James Mease). In 1790 they had one daughter, Anna Maria Moylan, who later married the famous scholar, journalist and diplomat Robert Walsh.