1Report on Instructions on Peace Negotiations, [7 January 1782] (Madison Papers)
...with Great Britain must acknowledge the “right” of American and French citizens, under the terms of the Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1778, to use the offshore fishing banks of North America. On the other hand, in spite of JM’s opposition, Congress left the matter of western boundaries largely to the discretion of the American peace commissioners, as guided by the French...
2From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 8 January 1782 (Madison Papers)
. According to Articles XI and XII of the plan for the Bank of North America, Robert Morris as superintendent of finance was authorized “at all times, to examine into the affairs of the Bank, and for that purpose shall have access to all the books and papers.” On every day except Sundays...
3From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 9 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Bank of North America announced in the
4From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 30 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
...posts until his straitened finances necessitated his return home. His subsequent efforts to secure a federal appointment were unsuccessful. For at least two years before his death in Philadelphia from yellow fever he was an assistant cashier of the Bank of North America (Hersch L. Zitt, “David Salisbury Franks, Revolutionary Patriot [c. 1740–1793],”
5Report on Address to the States by Congress, [25 April] 1783 (Madison Papers)
premium, and some of those “bonds,” including the loan-office certificates, were a part of the capital of the Bank of North America and of other private companies (
6Notes on Debates, 19 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
; for the Bank of North America,
7Notes on Debates, 21 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
...three days earlier, reflected not only the accumulating evidence of the determination of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council to refrain from employing force, but also the rumor current that afternoon of an imminent attack by the mutineers upon the Bank of North America. At the same time this rumor finally induced the Executive Council to take immediate steps for calling out the militia (
8From James Madison to Ambrose Madison, 8 September 1786 (Madison Papers)
“The abolition of the bank” was an inaccurate rendering by JM of the difficulties encountered by the Bank of North America in Philadelphia. Although its charter was repealed by the Pennsylvania legislature in September 1785 the bank continued to operate, but confidence in its future ebbed. “The bank’s stock dropped below par, its notes came home, and...
9The Bank Bill, [8 February] 1791 (Madison Papers)
The bank of North-America, he said, he had opposed, as he considered the institution as a violation of the confederation. ...he recollected voted with him on that occasion. The bank of North-America was however the child of necessity—as soon as the war was over, it ceased to operate as to continental purposes. But, asked he, are precedents in war, to justify violations of private and...
10From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1791 (Madison Papers)
To the Stock-Holders of the Bank of North-America, on the Subject of the Old and New Banks