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
The William Trent Papers describe some of Trent's land holdings and business dealings in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Maryland, and the Ohio Valley, with several investors including John Swift, Joseph Morris, George Campbell, George Croghan, Joseph Simon, David Franks, and Thomas Smallman, among others. Among the documents is an undated “List of Books, Papers, &c being the contents of a Black Trunk, belonging to the estate of William Trent deceased” describing fifteen items and bundles of papers (none of which are contained in the McAllister Collection). Another undated document is Trent's copy of a list of twenty-eight parcels sold to Campbell, Mitchell, and Davis, which includes six tracts along Jennings Run in Maryland., 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., William Trent (1715-1787), soldier, Indian trader, and land speculator, was a prominent figure in the development of Western Pennsylvania during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Creator
Trent, William, 1715-1787?
Date
1763
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 016, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64400#page/1/mode/1up
