The Chestnut Street Raid on Wall Street, 1839

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The market for American state government bonds in Britain and the United States, 1830–431

“…But the causes of the suspension in October of 1839 were a run on the Philadelphia bank by banks in New York and Boston. Hammond, ‘Chestnut Raid on Wall Street’; Smith, Economic aspects .…”