Bank of the United States (Baltimore, Md.) records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Bank of the United States (1816-1836); Bank of the United States (1791-1811); Bank loans; Merchants' Bank of Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.); Banks and banking
Description: Correspondence and banking and legal records documenting loans and other business of the Baltimore bank, both as a branch of the Bank of the United States and as a corporate state-chartered bank.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1918.

Congressionally-chartered as a branch of the Bank of the United States in 1792; continued under a charter from the State of New York after the charter of the Bank of the United States expired in 1811; chartered anew as the Baltimore branch of the second Bank of the United States in 1816; Merchants' Bank of Baltimore assumed the business of the Baltimore branch after the expiration of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009167