IV. “Society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others in North America.” Incorporated by Massachusetts in 1787.
[391] Separately as Remarks on the early paper Currency of Mass., with photographs of Mass. bills. Cambridge, 1866.
[392] Brinley, i. no. 857.
[393] Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 333; Brinley, i. no. 726.
[394] Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Apr., 1866, p. 88; Palfrey, iv. 333, with references; Province Laws (Ames and Goodell), i. 700; Sewall Papers, ii. 366.
[395] Cf. Henry Bronson’s “Hist. Acc. of Connecticut Currency” in the N. Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, i. p. 171.
[396] What has been called “the first gun fired in the Land-bank war of 1714-1721” was a reprint in Boston, in 1714, of a tract which was originally published in London in 1688, called A Model for erecting a Bank of Credit. Adapted especially for his majesties Plantations in America. (Prince Catal., p. 45.) The Boston preface, dated Feb. 26, 1713-14, says that “a scheme of a bank of credit, founded upon a land security, ... will be humbly offered to the consideration of the General Assembly at their next session.” (Sabin, no. 49,795; Brinley, i. no. 1,430.)
[397] Sabin, ii. no. 6,710; Prince Catal., p. 51. But see Ibid., under “Bank of Credit,” p. 4, for other titles.
[398] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1884, p. 226.
[399] Hutchinson’s Massachusetts, ii. 207, 208.