LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE SILVER BANK.

    PREPARED BY ANDREW McFARLAND DAVIS.

    NOTE.

    The names of the subscribers to the Silver Bank are to be found appended to a fragment of the Articles which is preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, CII. 49–55. They have never been separately published, and although the Calendar of papers in this volume purports to be those of the Land Bank, still the history of the Silver Bank is so closely intertwined with that of the Land Bank that the names of the Boston merchants who rallied to the support of the former and pledged themselves to perpetual hostility to the latter would seem to be equally worthy of record here with those of the subscribers to the Land Bank.

    While it is true that the names of the subscribers to the Silver Bank have never been separately published, it is nevertheless a fact that they have been made public in a way that would easily enable one to identify them.

    In July, 1903, a list of subscribers to agreements, schemes for banks, etc., other than the Land-Bank Scheme in Massachusetts, 1733–1740, was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LVII. 274–281. This list comprehended all those who can be identified as participants in the struggle in Massachusetts between the hard money and the paper currency men of that period through their subscriptions to agreements not to receive or pay out certain bills; to borrow stated amounts in Merchants’ Notes of 1733 from the managers of that affair; to borrow in a similar way from the Silver Bank of 1740, and finally to take certain amounts in proposed Province loans the purpose of which was to pave the way for a return to specie payments.

    This list was prefaced in the Register with a brief account of the events which led up to this struggle in which the names of those who were known to have been connected with “The Fund” in Boston in 1681–82, the Blackwell Bank in 1686, and the proposed Bank of Credit in 1714, were also given. A combination of the list of subscribers to the Land Bank with those given in the Register list above referred to would give, if the names of those connected with the earlier banks which are mentioned in the Register were added, a fairly complete list of the men in Massachusetts who took an active part on both sides, in this long protracted contest. While such a list might prove to be interesting, its scope covers ground somewhat outside the limits of this Calendar, but the following list of the subscribers to the Silver Bank itself is not subject to this criticism.

    LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE SILVER BANK.

    • Alford.
      • John.
    • Allen.
      • Samuel.
    • Appleton.
      • Daniel.
    • Apthorp.
      • Charles.
    • Aspinwall.
      • Thomas, Brookline.
    • Austin.
      • John.
    • Avery & Deming.
    • Bagnal.
      • Benjamin.
    • Bartlet.
      • Samuel.
    • Bill.
      • Richard.
    • Bimdley.7
      • Francis.
    • Binney.
      • Thomas
    • Bourn.
      • Sylvanus.
    • Boutineau.
      • James.
      • Stephen.
    • Bowdoin.
      • James.
      • William.
    • Breed.
      • Ebenezer.
    • Brown.
      • Robert.
    • Byram.
      • Josiah.
    • Cary.
      • Samuel.
    • Caverly.
      • Anthony.
    • Cheever.
      • Ezekiel.
    • Child.
      • Thomas.
    • Clap.
      • Stephen.
    • Clarke.
      • Benjamin.
    • Coffin.
      • William.
    • Craddock
      • George.
    • Davis.
      • Gershom.
    • Day.
      • James.
    • Deming.
      • Charles.
    • Deming, Avery &.
    • Dowse.
      • Joseph.
    • Ewing.
      • John.
    • Faneuil.
      • Benjamin.
    • Fitch.
      • Joseph.
    • Foster.
      • Hopestill.
    • Foye.
      • John.
    • Gardner.
      • Silvester.
    • Gatcomb.
      • Francis.
    • Gibbs.
      • Henry, Salem.
    • Gooch.
      • John
    • Gould.
      • James.
    • Gray.
      • Harrison.
    • Gridley.
      • Isaac.
    • Hale.
      • Robert, Beverly.
    • Hall.
      • Andrew.
      • Hugh.
    • Hill.
      • John.
    • Holmes.
      • Nathaniel.
    • Hutchinson.
      • Edward.
    • Jackson.
      • Thomas, Jr.
    • Jenner.
      • Thomas.
    • Johonnot.
      • Zachary.
    • Jones.
      • Phynehas.
    • Lee.
      • Joseph.
      • Thomas, Jr.
    • Lillie.
      • Theophilus.
    • Lothrop.
      • Isaac, Jr.
    • Lyde.
      • Byfield.
    • Lyde
      • Benjamin.
    • Marion,
      • Joseph.
    • Marston.
      • Benjamin.
    • Mason.
      • David.
    • Minot.
      • George.
    • Moquet.
      • Francis.
    • Murdock.
      • John.
    • Newton.
      • Hibbert.
    • Oliver.
      • Andrew.
    • Osborne.
      • John, & Son.
    • Oxnard.
      • Thomas.
    • Parker.
      • Seth.
    • Pitts.
      • James.
    • Pollard.
      • Benjamin.
    • Pope.
      • Samuel, Salem.
    • Prescot.——.
    • Quincy.
      • Edmund.
      • Josiah.
    • Rogers.
      • Nathaniel
    • Ruck.
      • John.
    • Russell.
      • James.
      • John.
    • Salter.
      • John.
    • Sewall.
      • Samuel
    • Shute.
      • John, Malden.
    • Smethurst.
      • Capt.——.
    • Spikeman.
      • William.
    • Spooner.
      • John.
    • Stevens.
      • Samuel.
    • Thwing.
      • Nathaniel
    • Ting. See Tyng.
    • Torrey.
      • Caleb.
    • Tyng.
      • Col.——.
      • Edward.
    • Vassall.
      • John.
    • Waldo.
      • Cornelius, & Son.
    • Welles.
      • Samuel
    • Wells.
      • Francis.
    • Wendell.
      • Jacob.
    • Wentworth.
      • Samuel.
    • Wilson.
      • Joseph, Malden.
    • Winslow.
      • Edward.
      • Isaac.
      • Joshua.
    • Winthrop
      • Adam.
    • Wyer
      • David.
      • William.