The Statistics of American Commercial Banking, 1782–1818

J. Van Fenstermaker

The Journal of Economic History, 1965, vol. 25, issue 3, 400-413

Abstract: In spite of its importance to economic development, much remains unknown about commercial banking in early America. The Historical Statistics of the United States gives the number of banks, their capital stock, bank note circulation, deposits, and specie for only four years prior to 1830, and these data are far from complete. Economic and financial historians generalize about this period from statistics presented in Albert Gallatin's Considerations on the Currency of the United States and from the reports of the Treasury Department, summarized in the Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency, 1876.

Date: 1965
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