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Insurance companies -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Insurance Company of North America Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1184
Abstract

This collection of 140 letters, receipts, and legal papers documenting the work of the Insurance Company of North America, the oldest joint stock insurance company in the United States. These records detail the activities of the company’s first fifty years from 1792 to 1843 and include the signatures of prominent figures from this period including John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Robert Morris, and Daniel Webster.

Dates: 1792 December 1-1843 February 18