Mr. Thomas Willing

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  Other Americana highlights included an Autograph Letter Signed by Ethan Allen concerning the delivery of paper for the printing of Reason: the Only Oracle of Man, Bennington, 20 January 1785, $10,200; a Document Signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, a lawyer's deposition regarding a bankruptcy, Philadelphia, 4 August 1788, $11,400; a Letter Signed by Alexander Hamilton, as Secretary of the Treasury, to Thomas Willing, President of the Bank of the United States, requesting $10,000 be sent to the Commissioner of Loans of Virginia, 24 March 1792, $9,000; an elaborate printed portrait of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Signed and Inscribed by the soldier, patriot and president of Mexico, 15 February 1871, $10,200; and a Signed and Inscribed copy of Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball, first edition, New York, 1928, $6,000.

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  Thomas Willing (1731-1821) had been a member of the Continental Congress, mayor of Philadelphia and president of the Bank of North America (1781-92) and the first president of the Bank of the United States (1791-1811).

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  So they wrote to a man named Thomas Willing, president of the Bank of North America in Philadelphia, for advice.Mr. Willing wrote back, detailing some accounting and risk management practices of the day.
  
  He closed his letter with these words: "The world is apt to suppose a greater mystery in this sort of business than there really is.

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  The founders of the bank, Robert Morris and Thomas Willing, were partners who trafficked in the buying and selling of humans.
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  Willing was the sixth mayor of Philadelphia.

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  In 1774 his first American customer was the leading Philadelphia merchant, Willing, Morris & Co.; its influential partners included Robert Morris, a future financial architect of American independence from Britain, and Thomas Willing, a future president of the Bank of the United States.
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  The investment was introduced by the land's owner, Senator William Bingham, son-in-law of Barings' Philadelphia correspondent, Thomas Willing, and yet another friend of Lansdowne.
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  Links with leading American merchants, such as the Codmans of Boston, Willing and Francis of Philadelphia, Robert Gilmour, and Robert Oliver & Brothers of Baltimore were now immensely important to Barings' business as its axis swung from continental European to transatlantic trade.
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  Thomas Willing, William Bingham's father-in-law and Barings' client at Philadelphia since 1774, was the bank's president and so its use of Baring's firm in making London payments, undertaking exchange transactions, and providing credits was seemingly inevitable.

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  "Willing found a great advantage in a card table with turreted corners.After his servants opened it up, the table's top revealed four niches at the cornersâ€"each the size of a nice coasterâ€"where the players could place their candlesticks."The wood carving was of a remarkable order.
  
  Thomas Willing was an 18th-century Philadelphia merchant who put together an enormous fortune, participated fully in the civic life of Philadelphia, and played a vibrant role in the founding of the United States.He and his partner Robert Morris served their country well while serving themselves, a nice equation hardly ever achieved in the present day.Willing early became the Mayor of Philadelphia, rounded up foreign supplies for the Revolution with Morris, and later became the first president of the Bank of the United States.
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  Willing was a patron who worked with craftsmen to mold his dwelling (stones) and shape the furniture (sticks) and other artifacts that completed it.In this he was much more interesting than the collectors who in time laid hold of his card table, because his was a creative rather than a collecting role.As merchant citizen, he built his city and enlarged its scope by the nature of his purchases, his enterprise, and his leadership.

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  BANK OF THE UNITED STATES NOTE SIGNED BY THOMAS WILLING

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  BANK OF THE UNITED STATES NOTE SIGNED BY THOMAS WILLING
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  Bank of the United States Note signed by Thomas Willing.A portion of the upper right corner has been torn off.

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  Thomas Willing was the first prominent Philadelphia merchant to enter Congress as a delegate.He brought a liberal definition of virtue.As a result of his doctrine, his social position, and his business connections, the interests of Thomas Willing and those of Robert Morris were nearly aligned with one another's.
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  Willing, after all, was a member of one of the elite merchant families of the city, and would later be Morris's business partner in a number of lucrative commercial transactions during the war, some of which were realized at the expense of the colonial citizenry.
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  Although Willing acted in a manner that was consistent with the city's merchant class, it would not be long before Robert Morris would replace him as the most commercially oriented member of the Continental Congress.
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  In December of 1775, Thomas Willing resigned his seat as a delegate.No reason was given at the time, though the months preceding his resignation were marked with some suspicion as to the legitimacy of a contract that Congress had entered into with both Willing and Morris, in which the two merchants stood to make a profit of 12,000 pounds.[16] Willing attempted to deny his knowledge of any profits which he would have incurred as a result of the deal, but in the end, was only able to prevent Morris from sharing in any of the suspicion, claiming, "Mr.Morris's character is such that he does not deserve it."[17] Shortly after Willing left Congress, a committee voted to fill the vacancy by inviting Robert Morris to become a delegate.

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  Oil on canvas. (40" x 32" each) BE.06.3 & BE.06.2. Emily Swift Balch, mother of Edwin Swift and Thomas Willing, was the member of the family who initially proposed the formation of a library or institute to collect materials related to the history of the United States.

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