1740 March 25 (Tuesday). David and Samuel digging stones, still on the Southside. Sent down my Subscription to the Manufacture Bank[1] by Mr. Samuel Robinson of Hardwicke.
[1]This term was sometimes used for the Land Bank of 1740, a plan for providing a currency backed by real estate and redeemable in the future in commodities. Andrew M. Davis, Currency and Banking in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay (New York, 1901) 2:140.