The Governor and Council appointed Solomon Lincoln, of Hingham,
Joseph S. Cabot of Salem, and myself.
Mr. Lincoln was a kind, capable man of considerable learning,
especially in Old Colony history and genealogy. His first question to
bank officers often related to them personally, and when he found a man
who traced his line to the Old Colony, he pressed him with questions
until his whole history was disclosed. Mr. Cabot sometimes anticipated
Mr. Lincoln, by saying at once, when we entered a bank, "Is there
anybody here from the Old Colony?"
Mr. Cabot was a bachelor of fifty, and his ways were often odd, and
occasionally they were disagreeable. He had a custom of never locking
his sleeping-room door. Of this he often boasted. When we were at the
American House, Worcester, Mr. Cabot said upon his appearance in the
morning: "A very queer thing happened to me last night. When I got up
my clothes were missing. At last I opened the door, and there they
were in the hall. I supposed that I had been robbed. But I am all
right," taking his wallet from his pocket. I said: "Have you looked
in your wallet?" He opened it to find that the money had disappeared.
We ventured to suggest that for a bank commissioner, he had not shown
a great amount of shrewdness.
In the years 1849 and 1850 the commission examined all the banks in the
State.
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