Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(BANKING.) Issue of the Connecticut Journal on the charter of the Bank of North America. 4 pages, 14 x 7 3/4 inches, on one sheet; faint dampstaining, stitch holes along center fold. New Haven, CT, 21 June 1781

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The entire first page and part of the second is devoted to the Bank of North America: the plan submitted to Continental Congress, their resolution chartering the bank, and the lengthy observations on the plan by Robert Morris. It was the young nation's first central bank. Also war news on the movements of Cornwallis and more.