Box MSS VF 31

Notes on the history of Shawmut Bank, Boston, Mass., compiled and written by Dane Yorke, December 15, 1952.

Various early policies of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, 1845-1897.

Policies of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Some are photostats.

The Vertical file collection on insurance consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on marine, business, and home insurance policies, among other record types, dated from 1744 to 1943.

Typescripts of correspondence of James Gore King regarding investments made in America from London, England, 1838.

Investment banking papers include memorandum, purchase of stock, and correspondence. Individuals represented include Henry Lee Higginson, George Bond, James Savage, and Benjamin S. Pray.

Papers related to the investment banking firm Estabrook & Co. with recommendations that the firm close it's New York and Boston Stock Exchanges and focus solely on investment banking in stead of stock brokerage.

Balance sheet, mortgages, and comparative statements of the New England Mortgage Security Company, 1895-1896.

Papers of the Union Canal Lottery of Boston, Mass. include correspondence sent to lottery manager Patrick Tracy Jackson regarding the purchase of tickets. Also included are lists of ticket numbers, settlements of accounts, and agreements.

One document showing stock in the Douglass Manufacturing Company sold by Frank H. Williams of F.H. Williams & Co., stock brokers located at 40 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.

Receipt of William Burns of the firm Burns & Halliburton for a note due, August 4, 1828.

This folder contains unbound manuscripts consisting of promissory notes that range in date from 1850 to 1858 and the majority are signed by Nathaniel J. Miller and Charles S. Crosby of Portland, Maine and surrounding area.

This folder contains two unbound manuscripts: the first is a charter of the American Finance Company, of Pennsylvania, 1867, and the ssecond is a letter from Mr. E.P. Bond about the Security Safe Deposit Company or Boston, Massachusetts, 1884.

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.

The Vertical file collection on banking and investment banking consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on banking and loans, dated 1692-1952.

Contains several receipts and bonds for loans of farmer John Reynolds of North Kingston, Rhode Island; bond of William Bryan of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Evan Morgan of Philadelphia; and bond of Framingham farmers to Jonathan Mason of Boston, among others, dated 1716-1775.

Contains bonds for mortgage loans to farmer John Reynolds of North Kingston, Rhode Island, dated 1728-1738.

This folder contains two unbound manuscripts: A letter to Elijah Howard, Jr. from an unidentified person and a list of failed businesses in Boston, Massachusetts in 1837.