May 17 1792 – 25 Iyar 5552

The New York Stock & Exchange Board was founded under a buttonwood tree, outside 68 Wall Street New York. The Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stockbrokers to regulate trading of securities between themselves. Five of them were Jews, including Benjamin Seixas, whose brother Gershom was the first Jewish religious leader (he served as a cantor and preacher in New York) born and raised in America.

 

Diorama from the Museum of the City of New York showing the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement
Diorama from the Museum of the City of New York showing the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc
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