Excerpt from Colonial Currency Reprints, Vol. 4: 1682-1751

"The distressed state of the town of Boston, " etc., and "The distressed state of the town of Boston once more considered, " etc., the latter containing a scheme for a private bank of emission. The literature covering these two periods is contained in Volumes I and II of our reprints. The third period of activity for the pamphleteers was brought about by the attempt to supply a currency through private banks in 1740. The interesting experiment of the Merchants' Notes in 1733 did not contribute much to the pamphlet literature. The published discussion, relative to that project was mainly confined to the newspaper columns, selections from which were reprinted in Volume III.

The present volume concludes the publication of the currency pamphlets, of which a list was given in the first volume of the series. It contains the several titles numbered from forty-three to fifty-eight in that list, with the exception of number forty-five, "An Inquiry into the nature and uses of money, " etc., which for reasons explained in Volume III was included in that volume. The sequence of the chronological list given in Volume I has been violated in Volume IV to this extent: the "Account of the rise, progress, and consequences of the two late schemes, " etc., follows instead of precedes the "Letter from a gentleman in Boston to his friend in Connecticut."

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