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The bills then emitted bore date September 9, 1740, and the mortgages then prepared for execution by those who should become borrowers of the company bills upon real security were dated September 9. Setting aside consideration of the records in other counties and turning to Worcester County alone, we find that the first Land Bank mortgage was executed September 27th, and lodged for record on the same day. Two were lodged for record on the 29th; two on the 30th, and forty-six during the month of October. November saw sixty-two of them deposited for record with the Register of Deeds, while in December, the number lodged for record fell off to fifty-four. The shrinkage continued during the months of January, February and March, 1741, the number of mortgages left for record during these months being respectively, 20, 13 and 82, at which point my own knowledge of the matter ceases, and presumably also the active operations of the company as a lender of bills ceased about that time. We know from various sources that the violent opposition of the government seriously affected the affairs of the company, even before the news arrived of the passage by Parliament of the act for restraining and preventing several unwarrantable schemes in his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America. |