Petition seeking a Chartered Bank in Richmond.

• imprint_number: 1811.104
• title: To the honorable the legislature of Virginia, the petition of sundry inhabitants of the city of Richmond, town of Manchester and their vicinities sheweth …
• sequence_number: 104
• year: 1811
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Inhabitants of Richmond and Manchester.
• notes: Petitioners ask that the Assembly enact legislation to incorporate a bank at Richmond; this request came at a time when other Virginia market-towns were asking for similar charters, all emphasizing the need to facilitate agricultural commerce; these efforts were partially successful, as the Assembly passed "An act "Incorporating the 'Farmers' Bank of Virginia'," (Chap. VII of Acts of December 1811 Assembly) on February 13, 1813; this new bank was organized in the same manner as the antecedent Bank of Virginia (1805), with a centralized board of directors meeting at Richmond, and subsidiary managing committees attached to the various branch locations situated across the state, here Norfolk, Lynchburg, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, and Staunton; however, this new bank fell foar short of what the petitioners here had sought originally.
  Sheet lacks colophon; while clearly a Richmond imprint, given its overtly local focus, title could have issued from any of the presses then operating there, so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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