...him on the happy occasion—Genl Coxe it has been understood for some time is a person of infinite discretion who it is said very well comprehends arranging matters for his own advantage as the late transactions in the Bank of Columbia can prove Until that time he was thought simple and innofensive how he stands now the poor Widows who have lost their all can testify—While speaking thus of...
2February—1798 (Washington Papers)
...collect additional tolls, and the time for completion of the work had been again extended until 1802. Although the president and directors had obtained “on their notes, for the use of the Potomac Company, from the Bank of Columbia, $4500, and from the Bank of Alexandria $1500,” in order to carry on the work at Great Falls, the financial condition of the company became increasingly...
3[Diary entry: 7 February 1798] (Washington Papers)
...collect additional tolls, and the time for completion of the work had been again extended until 1802. Although the president and directors had obtained “on their notes, for the use of the Potomac Company, from the Bank of Columbia, $4500, and from the Bank of Alexandria $1500,” in order to carry on the work at Great Falls, the financial condition of the company became increasingly...
4To George Washington from David Stuart, 10 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
...and a leading investor and proponent of development in the federal district, served as a director of the Potowmack Company, and in 1793 he and Samuel Blodget, Jr., were among the founders of the Bank of Columbia, the second bank established in the district. In 1800 Templeman built a house on lot 8 of square 253, one of the lots purchased in 1792, slightly east of the President’s House, at...
5To George Washington from David Stuart, 6 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Georgetown merchant Marsham Waring (Warring) was one of the founders of the Bank of
Columbia, the second bank established within the District of Columbia. GW had already
appointed David Ross of Bladensburg, ...–1846), was also a Georgetown merchant and one of the founders of the Bank of Columbia. As of late September 1793, Ross and Francis Lowndes served on a...
6To George Washington from Thomas Peter, 27 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
My Father enables me to say that he will be my Security, if it could be borrowed for a few Years—I could Negotiate for it, at the Bank of Columbia, but he is perfectly against having any thing to do with Negotiation of that kind, & Rather recommends my endeavouring to get it in some other way—He has given me some Land in this State, & Property...
7To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
..., suitable to the interests of the fœderal city, the propositions, made by Mr Greenleaf, for releasing the legal title in seven or eight hundred lots. The expedient, which I have suggested, must remain immature, until the bank of Columbia is consulted, or the commissioners shall meet on the 15th instant...anticipation by discounts with the Bank of Columbia, provided that the legal title of...
8To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 2 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
...Randolph replied to this letter on 9 Jan., promising that “The letter inclosed in yours of the 2d instant to the President, shall be forwarded to Mr Trumbull.” Randolph then focused on the commissioners’ problems with the Bank of Columbia, pointing them to his letter of 2 Oct. 1794 (see Randolph’s first ...from the Bank of Columbia for an “accommodation” of $60,000, but on 19 Nov. 1794...
9To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The December 1793 Maryland act establishing the Bank of Columbia allowed the commissioners to subscribe for up to 2,000 shares of bank stock (...John Nicholson, the balance of the Virginia donation, Greenleaf’s loan, shares in the Bank of Columbia, and cash on hand, came to $135,175.26 after deducting a payment due to the bank. The commissioners estimated expenses from January 1795 to January...
10To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 20 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Shares may at this moment be bought in Alexandria Bank at par—and those of the Bank of Columbia at one per Cent under par. The Shares of the Alexandria Bank are 200 dollars each— and a dividend, of 6 Months interest at the rate of 9 or 10 per Cent per Annum will take place in...