Here are some links to a small part of Andrew McFarland Davis’ work on the colonial land banks. The first essay, on a Connecticut experiment of 1732, is interesting. The last essay provides a context for Severals relating to the FUND, which I recently posted on The Very Idea!
- Davis, Andrew McFarland. “A Connecticut Land Bank of the Eighteenth Century.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 13 (October 1898): 70-84.
- Davis, Andrew McFarland. “Currency Discussions in Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century.” Part I. Quarterly Journal of Economics 11 (October 1896): 70-91.
- Davis, Andrew McFarland. “Currency Discussions in Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century.” Part II. Quarterly Journal of Economics 11 (January 1897): 136-60.
- Davis, Andrew McFarland. “The Fund at Boston in New England.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 18 (February 1904): 255-68.
