Bank of Columbia Records. 1794-1828 (inclusive).
Title
Bank of Columbia Records. 1794-1828 (inclusive)
Description
The Bank of Columbia Records has correspondence and legal and financial papers that document the history of the bank and its depositors. The collection holds letters, predominantly single letters, from many prominent citizens of Georgetown and Washington in the early nineteenth century, as well as from Treasury Department officials and officers of the Bank of the United States., The Library Company of Philadelphia holds the Bank of the United States Records (McA 012), which are also part of the McAllister Collection; Bank of Columbia material can be found there in the files of Massachusetts senator James Lloyd (1769-1831), the Bank of the United States Office of Discount and Deposit, and William Wirt (1772-1834)., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., The Bank of Columbia was chartered in 1793 in George Town, Maryland. Its first president was Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), who served through 1798; the second was John Mason (1766-1849). The bank's chief administrative officer was its cashier. Samuel Hanson held the office through October 1801, followed by William Whann (d. 1822). Daniel Kurtz was appointed cashier in June 1821. The bank failed in 1824.
Creator
Bank of Columbia (Georgetown, Washington, D.C.)
Date
1792
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 013, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64470#page/1/mode/1up
State Bank of Camden Records. 1812-1837 (inclusive).
Title
State Bank of Camden Records. 1812-1837 (inclusive)
Description
The State Bank of Camden Records contains correspondence and financial documents relating to the bank's founding and transactions by some of its stockholders., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., The State Bank at Camden was founded in 1812 when the New Jersey General Assembly passed an act to established banks at Camden, Trenton, New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Newark, and Morris.
Creator
State Bank of Camden (Camden, N.J.)
Date
1812
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 014, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64364#page/1/mode/1up
Bank of the United States Records, 1790-1842 (inclusive).
Title
Bank of the United States Records, 1790-1842 (inclusive)
Description
The Bank of the United States Records contains correspondence and documents primarily related to the second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, with a small collection of material from the first bank, and from several of the second bank's branches in other American cities. There is correspondence with officers of the banks and its patrons John Sergeant, Basil Hall, Nathaniel Silsbee, and William Henry Harrison, as well as documents relating to the construction of the second Bank building designed by William Strickland. Papers relating to the duties of the Commissioners of Loans in the states of Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania are filed at the end of the collection., The early national period of the United States was marked by two attempts at central banking, the first and second Bank of the United States, both headquartered in Philadelphia. The first bank was chartered in 1791 with a twenty-year term that was allowed to expire in 1811. Its first president, serving from 1791 through 1807, was Philadelphia merchant Thomas Willing (1731-1821). The bank established offices of discount and deposit in 1792 in Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, and New York, after which it opened offices in Norfolk (1800), Washington and Savannah (1802), and New Orleans (1805)., Plagued by financial troubles during and after the War of 1812, Congress authorized a second bank in 1816, also with a twenty-year renewable term. The acting treasury secretary and Philadelphia native William Jones (1760-1831) was appointed the second bank's first president, succeeded in 1819 by Langdon Cheves (1776-1857), and in 1823 by Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844). The second Bank of the United States opened in Philadelphia in 1817 with seventeen branches in twelve states and the District of Columbia; by 1830 there were twenty-five branches in operation. The bank was not renewed by Congress, and ceased operation in 1836.
Date
1790
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 012, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64307#page/1/mode/1up