William B. Green and the LTV
Among the interesting questions that rise out of Greene’s early mutual bank writings is this one: did Greene really believe in a “labor theory of value” in the same way as other socialists of his […]
Among the interesting questions that rise out of Greene’s early mutual bank writings is this one: did Greene really believe in a “labor theory of value” in the same way as other socialists of his […]
While this is not an exhaustive list of other archives with 17th-century New England texts online, it’s a pretty good list of places to start looking for material: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School […]
Thomas Morton’s and the settlement of “Merrymount” at Mount Wollaston in Massachusetts have long functioned in national mythology as the foil for the early puritan settlements. Along with Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, Morton figures […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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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