For example plans for founding of the Bank of New York were formulated and then finalized at the Merchant’s Coffee house.
In 1737 Daniel Bloom, a mariner bought the Jamaica Boat tavern from John Dunks and named it the Merchants coffee house. The coffee house located at the end of Wall Street in New York.
The Merchants coffee house was the location for frequent vendues of merchandise and commodities, ships and their cargoes, real estate and horses as well as slaves. It was a center of trade. It also served as an insurance office.
Merchants coffee house hosted the Sons of Liberty on April 18, 1774, following the example of their Boston compatriots, met there to plan their won blockage of British tea imports.
The next months, leaders of the revolution gathered there to draft their call for the First Continental Congress.
Bloom was landlord until his death soon after the year 1750. He was succeed by Captain James Ackland, who shortly sold it to Luke Roome.
Early history of Merchants coffee house, New York
