Buttonwood Agreement

Buttonwood Agreement

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We the Subscribers, Brokers for the Purchase and Sale of the Public Stock, do hereby solemnly promise and pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not buy or sell from this day for any person whatsoever, any kind of Public Stock, at a less rate than one quarter percent Commission on the Specie value and that we will give preference to each other in our Negotiations. In Testimony whereof we have set our hands this 17th day of May at New York, 1792.

• Peter Anspach … 3 Great Dock Street

• Armstrong & Barnewall … 58 Broad Street

• Andrew D. Barclay … 136 Pearl Street

• Samuel Beebe … 21 Nassau Street

• G. N. Bleecker … 21 Broad Street

• Leonard Bleecker … 16 Wall Street

• John Bush … 195 Water Street

• John Ferrers … 205 Water Street

• Isaac M. Gomez … 32 Maiden Lane

• Travis Handak … 55 Broad Street

• John A. Hardenbrook … 24 Nassau Street

• Ephraim Hart … 74 Broadway

• John Henry … 13 Duke Street

• Augustine H. Lawrence … 132 Water Street

• Samuel March … 243 Queen Street

• Charles McEvers Jr. … 194 Water Street

• Julian McEvers … 140 Greenwich Street

• David Reedy … 58 Wall Street

• Robinson & Hartshorne … 198 Queen Street

• Benjamin Seixas … 8 Hanover Square

• Hugh Smith … Tontine Coffee House

• Sutton & Hardy … 20 Wall Street

• Benjamin Winthrop … 2 Great Dock Street

• Alexander Zuntz … 97 Broad Street

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttonwood_Agreement#Document_agreement