Buttonwood Agreement

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financial agreement founding document historical event

The Buttonwood Agreement was the 1792 pact among New York brokers that laid the foundation for what became the New York Stock Exchange.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Buttonwood Pact	1
Buttonwood Tree Agreement	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	financial agreement ⓘ founding document ⓘ historical event ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ surface form: Buttonwood Pact Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ surface form: Buttonwood Tree Agreement
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dateSigned	1792-05-17 ⓘ
followedBy	New York Stock Exchange ⓘ surface form: New York Stock and Exchange Board
governs	trading of public bonds ⓘ trading of public stocks ⓘ
historicalSignificance	considered origin of New York Stock Exchange ⓘ
inceptionOf	organized securities market in New York ⓘ
laidFoundationFor	New York Stock Exchange ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ Wall Street ⓘ
mainSubject	brokerage commissions ⓘ securities trading ⓘ
purpose	create a formal association of securities brokers ⓘ establish rules for commission rates ⓘ regulate securities trading among brokers ⓘ
signatory	Alexander Zuntz ⓘ Andrew Barclay ⓘ Augustus Wright ⓘ Benjamin G. Seixas ⓘ Benjamin Seixas ⓘ Benjamin Winthrop ⓘ Bernard Hart ⓘ Charles McEvers Jr. ⓘ David Reedy ⓘ Ephraim Hart ⓘ Gulian McEvers ⓘ Hugh Smith ⓘ Isaac Gomez ⓘ Isaac M. Gomez ⓘ John A. Hardenbrook ⓘ John Ferrers ⓘ John Henry ⓘ Leonard Bleecker ⓘ Peter Anspach ⓘ Rufus King ⓘ Samuel Beebe ⓘ Samuel March ⓘ surface form: Samuel Jones Samuel March ⓘ William Seton ⓘ
signatoryCount	24 ⓘ
signedOnStreet	68 Wall Street ⓘ
signedUnder	buttonwood tree ⓘ
stipulated	members trade securities only with each other ⓘ minimum commission rate of one-quarter percent ⓘ
year	1792 ⓘ

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Buttonwood Agreement → alsoKnownAs → Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buttonwood Pact

Buttonwood Agreement → alsoKnownAs → Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Buttonwood Tree Agreement

New York Stock Exchange → foundingEvent → Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ

John Henry → hasPrecursor → Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ

subject surface form: New York Stock Exchange

John Henry → signatoryTo → Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ