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===The Massachusetts Bank===
Bank of Boston traced its roots back to The Massachusetts Bank founded in 1784. The Massachusetts Bank was the first federally chartered joint-stock owned bank in the United States and only the second bank to receive a charter in the United States, after the [[Bank of North America]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jwnW0e1CytIC&pg=PA800-IA11 "The North American Review, Volume 201"], 1915.</ref> The bank's charter was signed by [[John Hancock]] and among its early account holders were such notable figures as [[Paul Revere]], [[Samuel Adams]], [[John Hancock]] and [[Henry Knox]]. The bank's founders were largely made up of merchants who wanted to use a U.S., rather than British bank to send money abroad. It was first headquartered at the old [[Manufactory House]], near Boston Common.<ref name="hower">{{cite journal |editor-last1=Hower |editor-first1=Ralph M. |title=A History of Boston's Oldest Bank |journal=Bulletin of the Business Historical Society |publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College |volume=11 |issue=6 |date=1937 |pages=101–104 |doi=10.2307/3110492 |jstor=3110492}}</ref> The bank was the only bank in the city of Boston until the Union Bank (later the [[Bank of New England]]) was founded in 1792.

In 1786, the Massachusetts Bank financed the first U.S. trade mission to China, and in 1791, it financed the first voyage of an American ship to [[Argentina]], establishing what would become a long-standing presence in [[Latin America]]. Bank of Boston would later become the largest foreign bank in several major Latin American cities.

In 1864, The Massachusetts Bank was renamed the Massachusetts National Bank.