MacArthur had taken a promissory note from a man named Thompson.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
But as Congress could not tax anybody, it had no means of raising a revenue, except to beg, borrow, or issue its promissory notes, the so-called Continental paper currency.
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske
A promissory note-dated and delivered.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day