urn:taro:utexas.cah.00065 A Guide to the Bank of the State of Mississippi Records, 1804-1846 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. Finding aid written in English. July 30, 2002 Edited with XMetaL 2 by Kristy Sorensen, according to instructions in Editing TARO EAD XML Finding Aids with XMetaL. Tue Jul 22 15:26:39 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00065 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). November 2004Formatting revised by Evan Hocker Descriptive Summary Bank of the State of Mississippi Bank of the State of Mississippi Records, 1804-1846. 85-311 16 ft., 1 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin The Bank of Mississippi was created by an act of the territorial legislature on December 25, 1809, with its headquarters at Natchez and its charter to run through 1834. The collection includes correspondence, accounting and transactional financial records, stockholder records, powers of attorney, letters of credit, personnel records, resolutions, minutes, legal case records, deeds, and memoranda document the operation of the Bank of the State of Mississippi from its establishment to its close. English. Organization

Organized into four series: I. Administrative records. II. Financial records. III. Legal records. IV. Miscellaneous materials. Arranged chronologically by type of material and subject.

 Biographical Note

The Bank of Mississippi was created by an act of the territorial legislature on December 25, 1809, with its headquarters at Natchez and its charter to run through 1834. After Mississippi was admitted to the union in December 1817, the new state legislature passed an act changing the bank's name to the Bank of the State of Mississippi and extending its charter to December 31, 1840. By this legislation, branches were authorized at Port Gibson and Woodville, and no other banks could be incorporated during the life of the charter. However, in 1830, a financial crisis, precipitated in part by the state's debt to the bank, caused the governmet to ignore its pledge, and the Planters' Bank was chartered. Unable to recover, the Bank of the State of Mississippi was authorized to wind down its business and by 1834 it was largely defunct.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, accounting and transactional financial records, stockholder records, powers of attorney, letters of credit, personnel records, resolutions, minutes, legal case records, deeds, and memoranda document the operation of the Bank of the State of Mississippi from its establishment to its close. The economic history of Mississippi from its territorial years through early statehood is reflected, as well as the financial affairs of the citizenry. Among the legal records are materials related to the estate of Winthrop Sargent, first territorial governor and one of the bank's founders. Other prominent persons in the bank's operation represented in the papers are Samuel Postlethwait and Stephen Duncan, two of the bank's presidents, and Gabriel Tichenor, cashier. Also documented are the bank's dealings with out-of-state banks, particularly in New Orleans.

Forms part of the Natchez Trace Collection.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Postlethwait, Samuel. Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820. Tichenor, Gabriel. Subjects Bank of the State of Mississippi--Archives. Mississippi--Commerce--History--19th century--Sources. Mississippi--Economic conditions--Archival resources. Natchez (Miss.)--History--19th century--Sources. Banks and banking--Mississippi--History--19th century--Sources. Preferred Citation

Bank of the State of Mississippi Records, 1804-1846, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

 Inventory 2E949 Administrative records: 2E949General correspondence: 2E949 1811-1816 2E950 1817-1818 2E951 1819 2E952 January - October 1820 2E953 November 1820 - August 1821 2E954 September 1821 - October 1823 2E955 November 1823 - August 1824 2E956 September 1824 - October 1825 2E957 November 1825 - May 1826 2E958 June-December 1826 2E959 January-December 1827 2E960 January-August 1828 2E961 September 1828 - June 1829 2E962 July-November 1829 2E963 December 1829 - May 1830 2E964 June-December 1830 2E965 January-March 1831 2E966 April-July 1831 2E967 August-November 1831 2E968 December 1831 - February 1832 2E969 March-August 1832 2E970 September 1832 - July 1833 2E971 1834, undated 2E971Bank shares ownership: 2E971Stock certificates: 2E971 1811-1818 2E972 1819-1834 2E972Caroline Mitchell estate, 1822-1830 2E972Jane Butter, 1819-1821, 1834 2E972James P. Hart, 1825-1830 2E972Stock purchase orders and receipts, 1811-1825 2E972Stock transfers, 1810-1832 2E972Stockholders lists, 1818-1819, 1826 2E972Proxies, 1831, 1836 2E972Affidavits and letters concerning lost certificates, 1821, 1830-1833 2E972Powers of attorney: 2E972 1815-1819 2E973 1820-1837, undated 2E973Board of Directors: Resolutions, minutes, correspondence, and other materials, 1811-1834, undated 3So10 Election records, 1816-1818, undated 2E974 Personnel: 2E974Employment applications, resignations, and other correspondence, 1811-1834, undated 2E974Performance bonds: 2E974 1818-1833, undated 3So10 Oversize bond, 1831 2E974 Mississippi state government: 2E974Legislature, correspondence and legislation, 1814, 1819, 1830 2E974 Governors, correspondence and financial records, 1813-1834, undated 2E974United States government: 2E974Treasury Department, correspondence, circulars, and reports, 1818-1831, undated 2E974War Department, correspondence, 1821-1831 2E974Letters of credit, 1818-1832 2E974Counterfeiting and other bank crime activities, correspondence, 1819-1834 2E974Claims, 1837-1844 2E974Successor banks: 2E974Correspondence, financial records, and other materials, 1832-1846 3So10 Oversize financial record, 1833 2E974 Financial records: 2E974Accounting reports: 2E974Abstracts of funds: 2E974 1819 2E975 1820-1825, 1828 2E974Audits and balance sheets, 1817-1822 2E974Branch office statements: 2E974Port Gibson: 2E974 1822-1826 3So10 Oversize statement, 1832 2E975 Woodville, Office of Discount and Deposit: 2E975 1821-1829 3So10 Oversize statements, 1820-1832 2E975 Out-of-state bank statements: 2E975Bank of Orleans 2E975 1822-1826 3So10 Oversize statement, 1831 2E976 Louisiana State Bank, 1820-1823 2E976Bank of United States, New Orleans: 2E976 1822, 1829-1833 3So10 Oversize statements, 1823-1832 2E976 Bank of United States, Nashville, 1816, 1830 2E976Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Philadelphia: 2E976 1815, 1825, 1827 3So10 Oversize statements, 1816-1832 2E976 Mechanics Bank, New York, 1828 3So10 City Bank of Baltimore, 1816 3So10Louisville Branch Bank, 1814 2E976 State of deposit ledger sheets: 2E976 1811-1819, undated 3So10 Oversize sheet, 1817 2E976 Bills receivable: 2E976"Ticklers," 1821-1822 3So10 Oversize ticklers, 1819-1824, 1828 2E976 Bank expenses and income: 2E976Bills, receipts, and other materials: 2E976General: 2E976 1811-1819, 1822-1829 3So10 Oversize account, 1814 2E977 1830-1831, 1836, undated 2E977Steamboat shipments, 1811-1833, undated 2E977Taxes, 1813-1831 2E977Legal costs, 1812-1831, undated 2E977Branch offices: 2E977 1818-1819, 1826-1830 3So10 Oversize records, 1822-1823, 1828-1830 2E977 Money supply: 2E977Documentation of specie orders, printing and issuing of paper, and related materials, 1811-1831, undated 2E977Cancellation and destruction resolutions and related materials, 1813-1815, undated 3So10 Oversize records, 1820, 1822 2E977 Income: 2E977Profit and loss slips, 1820-1822, undated 2E977Dividend payment memoranda, checks and related materials, 1817-1834 2E977Transactions: 2E977Promissory notes: 2E977 1812-1818 2E978 1818-1821 2E979 1822-1833, undated 2E980 Checks and drafts: 2E980 1811-1820 2E981 1821-1825 2E982 1826-1829 2E983a 1830-1834, undated 2E983aBills of exchange: 2E983a 1812-1817 2E983b 1818-1831, 1835, undated 2E983bProtests and notices of non-payment: 2E983bPromissory notes, 1818-1832, undated 2E983c Checks and drafts, 1817-1834 2E983cBills of exchange, 1818-1826 2E983cDeposit slips, 1814-1831, undated 2E983cMiscellaneous receipts and other financial records: 2E983c 1813-1834, undated 3So10 Oversize records, 1818, undated 2E983c Legal documents, correspondence, financial records and other materials: 2E983cCharles B. Green vs. Bank of Mississippi, 1818-1828, undated 3So10 Oversize materials, 1821-1823 2E983c Winthrop Sargent estate, 1819-1833 2E983cHeirs of James Kemp vs. Thomas Hunt, 1826, 1832-1833 2E983cRifle Point Plantation, 1827-1834 2E983d Samuel Postlethwait: 2E983dDeed to Postlethwait and William Morton and dissolution of partnership agreement, 1805, 1808 3So10 Deed to Postlethwait and wife, 1804 3So10Deed, to Bank of Mississippi, 1814 2E983d Miscellaneous legal documents: 2E983d 1812, 1818-1831, undated 3So10 Deeds, 1819, 1830 2E983d Miscellaneous materials: 2E983dNotes and unidentified items, 1814-1835, undated 2E983dFragments, 1811-1831, undated