10“A Collection of Divers Letters,” 15. vii.1682, ms. Weeks Colls/1936/8/6, FLL.

11 N.S.B. Gras, “The Oldest American Business Corporation in Existence,” Business Historical Society Bulletin 10 (1936), 21-24.

12 Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House, 91.

13Ibid., 95.