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Report of the Board of Directors to the stockholders of the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Company : submitting the report of their engineer, with plans and profiles, illustrative of the surveys, and estimates of the cost of a rail-road from Boston to Providence : to which are annexed the acts of incorporation.

Title: Report of the Board of Directors to the stockholders of the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Company : submitting the report of their engineer, with plans and profiles, illustrative of the surveys, and estimates of the cost of a rail-road from Boston to Providence : to which are annexed the acts of incorporation.
Author: Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation.
Publication: Boston : J.E. Hinckley and Co., 14 Water-Street, 1832.
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Description

87, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : 1 map, 1 plan; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Map exhibiting the several routes surveyed for a proposed rail road from Boston to Providence, and also to Taunton.
Profiles of routes for the proposed Boston & Providence Rail Road.

Subject

Railroads > New England

Genre/Form

Charters and articles of incorporation.
Surveys.

Note

Signed (p. [3]): Thomas B. Wales, P.T. Jackson, Joseph W. Revere, William W. Woolsey, John F. Loring, directors. Boston, April 24th, 1832.
"Map exhibiting the several routes surveyed for a proposed rail road from Boston to Providence, and also to Taunton / surveyed under the direction of William Gibbs McNeill, U.S. engineer ; by Lt. Isaac Trimble, principal assistant B. & P. Rail Road; E.T. Griswold, do. do. B. & T. do.; Lt. W.H. Swift, E.S. Chesbrough, Lt. Thomas Stockton, Lt. Francis Vinton, J.C. Cadle, H.E. Rogers, assistant engineers ; lithographed from a plan drawn by E.S. Chesbrough, 1831. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. N.B. The surveys between Prov'e. & Taunton were made by James Hayward Esq."--First folded leaf.
"Profiles of routes for the proposed Boston & Providence Rail Road / surveyed under the direction of William Gibbs McNeill, U.S. engineer, by Lt. Isaac Trimble, principal assistant B. & P.R.R.; E.T. Griswold, do. do. B. & T.R.R.; Lt. W.H. Swift, E.S. Chesbrough, Lt. T. Stockton, Lt. F. Vinton, J.C. Cadle, H.E. Rodgers, assistants. Joshua Barney, U.S.A. del't. 1831. On stone by Jas. Eddy. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston."--Second folded leaf.
Last page blank.
"Report on the surveys, with the estimates of cost, for a rail-road from Boston to Providence and Taunton, by the engineer, to the president and directors of the company, 1832"--Page [5]-[78]. By William Gibbs McNeill. With an "erratum" note on p. [78].
Acts incorporating the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation, p. [79]-87.

Indexed In (note)

Checklist Amer. imprints
Thomson, T.R. Railroads

Call Number

*C p.v. 937, no. 19

OCLC

191238421

Author

Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation.

Title

Report of the Board of Directors to the stockholders of the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Company : submitting the report of their engineer, with plans and profiles, illustrative of the surveys, and estimates of the cost of a rail-road from Boston to Providence : to which are annexed the acts of incorporation.

Imprint

Boston : J.E. Hinckley and Co., 14 Water-Street, 1832.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Checklist Amer. imprints 11443

Thomson, T.R. Railroads, 602

Local Note

Copy in (Parsons) VDCP : Parsons Collection.

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Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Added Author

Wales, Thomas Beale, 1776-1853.

McNeill, William Gibbs, 1801-1853.

McNeill, William Gibbs, 1801-1853, cartographer.

Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 1802-1888, cartographer.

Griswold, E. T., cartographer.

Swift, W. H. (William Henry), 1800-1879, cartographer.

Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester, 1813-1886, cartographer.

Stockton, Thomas, 1809 or 1810-1860, cartographer.

Vinton, Francis, 1809-1872, cartographer.

Cadle, J. C., cartographer.

Rodgers, H. E., cartographer.

Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester, 1813-1886, ill.

Hayward, James, 1786-1866, cartographer.

Barney, Joshua, 1799 or 1800-1867, ill.

Eddy, James, 1806-1888, engraver.

J.E. Hinckley & Co., publisher.

Pendleton's Lithography, lithographer.

Massachusetts. Act to Incorporate the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Corporation.

Massachusetts. Act in Addition to an Act to Establish the Boston and Providence Rail-Road Corporation.

Added Title

Map exhibiting the several routes surveyed for a proposed rail road from Boston to Providence, and also to Taunton.

Profiles of routes for the proposed Boston & Providence Rail Road.

Research Call Number

(Parsons) VDCP (Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation. Report of the Board of Directors)

TSB p.v. 59, no. 2

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