1From Alexander Hamilton to John Dickinson, [25–30 September 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
When the Supreme Executive Council learned, on June 24, that the soldiers were planning an attack on the Bank of North America, it ordered that a guard be placed there. On June 25, fearing that the mutinous troops would engage in violence, the Council finally ordered the state militia into service.
2From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [11 December 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
The Bank of North America in Philadelphia, which Congress had chartered on December 3, 1781 (
3From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, 21 February 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to the attempt to create a rival—the Bank of Pennsylvania—to the Bank of North America.
4From Alexander Hamilton to John B. Church, 10 March 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
The Bank of North America.
5From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, [21 March 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
, IX, 399, give Thomas FitzSimons, a director of the Bank of North America, as the recipient of this letter. It was addressed to Gouverneur Morris, for on the lower left-hand margin of the MS are the initials “G.M.” in H’s writing. The same or a similar...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, [7 April 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
The Bank of North America had prevented the creation of a rival institution, the Bank of Pennsylvania, by enlarging its capital stock to allow the participation of many of the promoters of the rival bank in the Bank of North America.
7From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [17–]18 May 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
Presumably in shares of the Bank of North America.For an account of the financial difficulties of the Bank of North America at this time, see
8From Alexander Hamilton to John Chaloner, [14 August 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
Nathaniel and John Tracy were merchants of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Nathaniel was listed among the first stockholders of the Bank of North America.
9From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [29 October 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
I have intended for some time to write to you on the subject of the bank of North America; but my absence from town and multiplied engagements have delayed my doing it. You of course know that the State of Pensylvania has repealed its act of incorporation.The Pennsylvania Assembly repealed the charter of the Bank of North America on September 13, 1785.
10Pieter Johan Van Berckel, William Edgar, Sampson Fleming, William Denning, and Alexander Hamilton (for John Barker … (Hamilton Papers)
The step lately taken by the Legislature of Pensylvania in repealing the act by which the government of that state had incorporated the Bank of North America has given rise to questions of a delicate and important nature....Bank of North America on the faith of the Pensylvania Charter might with great reason urge that so material a change in its situation is, at all events, with respect to them...