NOTE. The following titles of corporations chartered before 1800 appear in the list given by Judge Baldwin (Private Corporations, 296–311), but are omitted from the foregoing lists, for reasons indicated. NOT CORPORATIONS 1675 N. Y. The New York Fishing Company. 1792 Mass. Proprietors of George's River Canal. NOT INCORPORATED FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES Massachusetts 1782 The Marine Society of Salem. 1783 Proprietors of Mattakesset Creeks. 1789 Proprietors of the Androscoggin Boom. 1790 Associated Proprietors of Lumber in Merrimack River. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. 1796 Proprietors of the Roxbury Canal. Portland Marine Society. 1798 Proprietors of Mills on Charles River. 1799 Marblehead Marine Society. New York 1770 The Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the city of New York. 1792 The Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the city of New York. 1793 The Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures. Pennsylvania 1785 The Agricultural Society of Philadelphia. 1790 The Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia. South Carolina 1795 The Agricultural Society of South Carolina. Kentucky 1799 Directors and Society for promoting the Cultivation of the Vine. Trustees for the purpose of promoting manufactures. DUPLICATES 1792 Mass. The Merrimack River Bridge Company. 1795 Vt. BIBLIOGRAPHY PRELIMINARY NOTE The accompanying list includes all sources which have been cited in any of the foregoing essays, including court decisions, classified as (I) Histories of Corporations; (II) Biographies, Letters, Collected Works, etc.; (III) Local Histories; (IV) Public Documents; (V) Miscellaneous Books and Articles; (VI) Law Cases; (VII) Newspapers and Periodicals; (VIII) Manuscripts. Each work is earmarked with a Roman numeral to show for which essay or essays it has been utilized. Especially serviceable sources are starred. Where occasion seemed to require, comments are appended to indicate the special significance of particular works for the subject here treated. In the study of the history of American corporations Judge Baldwin has been a pioneer, and his essays on "Freedom of Incorporation," "Private Corporations," and "American Business Corporations before 1789" have long been the principal secondary sources in this field. On the colonial corporations, principal sources have been public documents, such as charters, laws, council minutes, and archives of various states. Fairlie's Municipal Corporations in the Colonies, Scott's Early Cities of New Jersey, and Davis's Corporations in The Days of the Colony [Massachusetts], are valuable secondary sources. For the study of William Duer, the chief sources have easily been the letters and private and public papers, in collections published and unpublished, and newspapers, contemporary with him. Especially valuable have been the Craigie, Duer, Knox, Scioto, and Wolcott papers, among the manuscripts; and the Brissot, Clinton, Cutler, Deane, Hamilton, and St. Clair papers, among the published material of the same nature. Of the periodicals Freneau's National Gazette, the Gazette of the United States, the New York Journal, and the monthly American Museum and Massachusetts Magazine contributed most. Chief among the secondary sources should be rated the Knickerbocker Magazine memoir, and the works on the Scioto company by Belote, Dawes, and Hulbert. On the New Jersey manufacturing society the principal reliance has been the records of the company itself; Hamilton's papers and the published collections of his works; contemporary newspapers, especially of Philadelphia and New Jersey; and New Jersey public documents. Several important letters also are in the various collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. William Nelson's paper on "The Founding of Paterson" and the account in Trumbull's Industrial Paterson are the only valuable secondary sources. For the last essay the information has been drawn from widely scattered sources. The session laws, collections, digests, and indexes of laws of the several states have been essential. Contemporary newspapers added much. At certain points, pamphlets of ancient vintage have been serviceable. Biographies and collections of works have been very useful. For a number of companies, special accounts are available. Of these, Mrs. Bacon-Foster's Patomac Route, Lewis's Bank of North America, Domett's Bank of New York, Woodward's Hartford Bank, and Montgomery's Insurance Company of North America are among the best. In the cases of the Massachusetts and Union (Boston) Banks, the writer gained access to the early corporate records. Save Baldwin's essay on "Private Corporations," no secondary works, except the accounts of particular corporations, merit special mention. I HISTORIES OF CORPORATIONS *BACON-FOSTER, Mrs. CORRA. Early Chapters in the Development of the Patomac Route to the West. Washington, 1912. (I, IV) Part I. The Ohio Company and other Adventurers, 1748 to 1774. II. The Patowmack Company, 1784 to 1828.... Life of Colo. Charles Simms, Gentleman. Contains valuable documents on the Potomac Company, and a good account of certain phases of its history. BAGLEY, W. H., and JONES, O. O. History of the Marine Society of Newburyport... Newburyport, 1906. (1) BALDWIN, SIMEON EBEN. "The Ecclesiastical Constitution of Yale College," in New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, iii, 405-442. New Haven, 1882. (I) BROWN, EDWIN H., Jr. "First Free School in Queen Anne's County," in Md. Hist. Mag., vi, 1-15 (March, 1911). (D) BRYCE, GEORGE. The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company. London, 1900. (I) *CAREY, MATHEW, editor. Debates and Proceedings of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, on the Memorial Praying a Repeal or Suspension of the Law Annulling the Charter of the Bank [of North America]. Philadelphia, 1786. (IV) CLARK, SAMUEL A. The History of St. John's Church, Elizabeth Town, N. J.... Philadelphia and New York, 1857. (1) *CLARKE, M. ST. CLAIR, and HALL, D. A. Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States: Including the Original Bank of North America. Washington, 1832. (II, IV) *CURRIER, FREDERICK A. "The Old Turnpike and Turnpike Days," in Fitchburg Hist. Soc. Proc., iv, 154-171. Fitchburg, 1908. (IV) Treats chiefly of the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike Company, reprinting some of its reports to the legislature. DEMAREST, DAVID D. "Rutgers College," in David Murray's History of DOLE, SAMUEL F. "The Cumberland and Oxford Canal," in Maine Hist. [EDDY, CALEB.] Historical Sketch of the Middlesex Canal, with Remarks for the Consideration of the Proprietors. By the Agent of the Corporation. Boston, 1843. (IV) *FAIRLIE, JOHN ARCHIBALD. "Municipal Corporations in the Colonies," in Municipal Affairs, ii, 341-381 (September, 1898). New York, 1898. (1) Valuable comparative discussions of the charters. FISHER, GEORGE HARRISON. "Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia," in Pa. Mag. of Hist. and Biog., xxvii, 279–295 (1903). (1) FORD, JOHN W., editor. Some Correspondence between the Governors and Treasurers of the New England Company in London and the Commissioners of the United Colonies in America, the Missionaries of the Company and Others between the Years 1657 and 1712, to which are added the Journals of the Rev. Experience Mayhew in 1713 and 1714. London, 1898. (m FRAZER, SUSAN CARPENTER. "Old Pennsylvania Milestones," in Pa. Mag. of Hist. and Biog., xxxii, 201-206 (1908). (IV) Concerning the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. GERARD, JAMES W. "The Dongan Charter of the City of New York," in Mag. of Amer. Hist., xvi, 30-49 (1886). (1) GOULD, WILLIAM E. "Portland Banks," in Me. Hist. Soc. Colls. and Proc., 2d Series, iv, 89-109. Portland, 1893. (IV) GREENE, J. EVARTS. "The Roxbury Latin School. An Outline of Its History," in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., iv, 348-366 (1887). (n) Guild, Reuben ALDRIDGE. Early History of Brown University, including the Life and Times of President Manning, 1756-1791. Providence, 1897. (D) HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE, 1915-16. Section on "History and Government." Cambridge, 1916. (D) HOLDSWORTH, JOHN THOM. The First Bank of the United States. (Nat. Mon. Com. Pubs., 61st Cong., 2d Sess., Sen. Doc. 571.) Washington, 1910. (IV) |