Massachusetts Bank Stock Certificates

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Boston: 1807. . Oblong 12mo approx. 4 x 7 ; contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards; rubbed, the spine with a 2 gouge, but the binding is firm and the contents quite clean. Contains approximately 100 pro-forma leaves accomplished in manuscript, being signed receipts for stock certificates received by any number of prominent Boston men. In 1807 Massachusetts passed an Act Establishing a State Bank. The first American state bank was founded in 1787; by 1820 there were 266 banks and 66

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