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Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dane, Dana & Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss: 766 1852-1855
Overview:

Business records of the Boston, Massachusetts based tea importing merchant firm, Dane, Dana & Co. and the Boston Sugar Refinery.

Savings Banks, 1802-1888

File — Box MSS VF 31: [Barcode: HB9TVM], Folder: 17Identifier: Mss:78 1692-1948 File, Mss:782
Scope and Contents:

This folder contains three unbound manuscripts: The first is a receipt for $2.00 in shares of the Boston bank, 1803; the second is a transfer of money at a meeting of the board of investment for the Provident Institution of Savings in the town of Boston by James Bowdoin, secretary, 1824; and finally a bill introduced in 1888 in the State of New Jersey for banks to pay an annual tax on their deposits, 1888.