[400] Brinley, i. no. 1,431.
[401] Sabin, ii. no. 6,711.
[402] Cf. Haven in Thomas, ii. pp. 370-392; Brinley, i. pp. 188-191; Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 184, 185, 302.
[403] First Essays at Banking in New England.
[404] This tract (Brinley, i. no. 1,434; Sabin, iv. 14,536) was the work of John Colman, who followed it later in the same year with The distressed state of the town of Boston once more considered, etc. (Brinley, no. 1,439; Sabin, iv. no. 14,537), which was induced by an answer to his first tract, called A letter from one in the Country to his friend in Boston, 1720 (Brinley, i. no. 1,435, and nos. 1,436-37 for the sequel; also Sabin, iv. 14,538). There were further attacks on the council in News from Robinson Crusoe’s island, with attendant criminations (Brinley, i. nos. 1,440-42).
[405] Fac-similes in The Century, xxviii. 248; Gay’s Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. p. 132.
[406] In a tract, Money the Sinews of Trade, Boston, 1731 (Brinley, i. no. 1,447), there is a wail over the disastrous effect of Rhode Island bills in Massachusetts. Rhode Island, in 1733, issued a large amount of paper money for circulation, chiefly in Massachusetts; and the elder colony suffered from the infliction in spite of all she could do. There is in the Connecticut Col. Records, 1726-35, p. 421, a fac-simile of a three-shilling bill of the “New London Society united for trade and commerce in New England.”
[407] Trade and Commerce inculcated ... with some proposals for the bringing gold and silver into the country. Boston, 1731. (Brinley, i. no. 1,448.)
[408] Bennett, an English traveller, who was in New England at this time, gives an account of the currency in vogue, and he says that the merchants informed him that “the balance of trade with England is so much against them that they cannot keep any money [coin] amongst them.” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1860-62, pp. 123-24.
[409] Cf. description of the notes of the “Silver Scheme” in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1860, pp. 263-64.