1From George Washington to Colonel John Cadwalader, 11 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 4:300–301, 6:946–47, 11:484). In 1780 Nixon became a director of the newly formed Bank of Pennsylvania. He was named a director of the Bank of North America in 1784 and its president in 1792.
2To George Washington from Robert Morris, 31 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
...and may be depended on,” writes Morris, who together with Nesbitt and others financed the outfitting of several privateers (Morris to Silas Deane, 31 Jan. 1777, ibid., 176–79). Nesbitt served as director of the Bank of North America from 1781 to 1792 and as the first president of the Insurance Company of North America from 1792 to 1796. He visited GW at Mount Vernon in September 1788 (see
3To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 22 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
...of American privateers to prey on British shipping in the West Indies. Bingham returned to Philadelphia in the spring of 1779. He became a founder of the Bank of Pennsylvania in 1780 and a director and stockholder of the Bank of North America in 1781. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788, and he was a U.S. senator from 1795 to 1801.
4To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 28 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
...to funds for the cause of the Colonists,” and as of 1775 a colonel of one of the Pennsylvania Associated Battalions raised in the Philadelphia area. After the Revolutionary War, Francis served as the first cashier of the Bank of North America.
...Samuel Meredith (1741–1817). Meredith was an active Patriot, serving three terms in the Pennsylvania Assembly and rising to the rank of brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia. After the Revolution he served as a director of the Bank of North America and as the first U.S. treasurer
6To George Washington from Philip Schuyler, 18 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
Lewis, Bank of North America
7To George Washington from George Clymer and John Nixon, 21 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
: Bank of North America.
8To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Morris, 26 May 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
Congress approved Morris’s plan for a bank (Bank of North America) on the same day that Morris wrote this letter (
9To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 6 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
Robert Morris’ plan for the Bank of North America, laid before Congress on 21 May, had been accepted five days later. A roll-call vote appears to have been recorded only on the paragraph of the plan providing for the incorporation of the bank by Congress. On...
10To John Jay from Robert Morris, 13 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
...a loan from Spain to the governor of Cuba, Juan Manuel de Cagigal. Rendón also informed Gálvez that Morris had asked Cagigal to advance $400,000 in specie (the total amount needed for the initial capitalization of the Bank of North America) by accepting bills of exchange on Versailles and Madrid, and that Morris and La Luzerne had guaranteed prompt payment of the bills. See