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Mayflower site: New England Puritan documents online

February 11, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Mayflower History site has quite a bit of good material on Puritan New England, as well as .pdfs of a couple of key original tracts and sermons. 17th and 18th century titles are always […]

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Colonial Land Bank Literature

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The major colonial land bank experiments seem to be these: 1681: The Fund at Boston, In New England1686: “Blackwell’s Bank” [proposed]1732: Connecticut land bank1714: Boston land bank [proposed]1740: Land Bank, or Manufactory Scheme, Boston The […]

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1741: Petition of London Merchants against the Land Bank

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PETITION OF LONDON MERCHANTS TO PARLIAMENT,11 FEBRUARY 1741 A petition of the several merchants of London, and others, whose names are thereunto subscribed, in behalf of themselves, and great numbers of merchants, traders, and […]

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1740: A Defense of the Land Bank

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

A LETTER TO THE MERCHANT IN LONDON TO WHOM IS DIRECTED A PRINTED LETTER RELATING TO THE MANUFACTORY UNDERTAKING,27 FEBRUARY 1740 I take the Freedom to send you and them the following Remarks on that […]

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1740: Dr. Wm. Douglas vs. the Land Bank

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[DR. WILLIAM DOUGLASS] A LETTER TO MERCHANT IN LONDON CONCERNING A LATE COMBINATION IN THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY . . . TO IMPOSE OR FORCE A PRIVATE-CURRENCY CALLED LAND-BANK MONEY, 21 FEBRUARY ,1740 I […]

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1739-40: Prospectus of the Land Bank Company

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

PROSPECTUS OF THE LAND BANKOR MANUFACTORY COMPANY.__________________________ THE LAND BANK OR MANUFACTORY SCHEME. Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. In order to Redress the distressing Circumstances which the Trade of this Province labours […]

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Puritan New England 1: Prehistory of American Freedom

February 9, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Foner starts his Story of American Freedom with the claim that “American Freedom was born in revolution,” but then makes it clear that the story really begins in a web of complex conflicts and outright […]

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Andrew McFarland Davis on the Land Banks

February 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here are some links to a small part of Andrew McFarland Davis’ work on the colonial land banks. The first essay, on a Connecticut experiment of 1732, is interesting. The last essay provides a context […]

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William Cullen Bryant, “On Usury Laws” (1836)

February 2, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

While this essay was published in 1836, while William B. Greene was at West Point, similarities between it and the the section on “The Usury Laws” in Greene’s Equality (1849) make it worth at least […]

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William Manning and the “Key of Libberty”

February 1, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a guest post from my peer facilitator and teaching assistant, Jennie Ahlborn, introducing William Manning’s Key of Libberty, along with citations (and links, for some folks, to Manning’s two key texts.) William Manning’s The […]

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