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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
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
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- Boston : J.E. Hinckley and Co., 1832
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- 1 online resource (87 p., [2] leaves of plates (fold.) : 1 fold. map, 1 fold. plan)
- 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."--1st fold. leaf.
- "Profiles of routes for the proposed Boston & Providence Rail Road surveyed under the direcion [i.e. 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."--2nd fold. leaf.
- "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."--p. [5]-[78]. By William Gibbs McNeill. With an "erratum" note on p. [78].
- Acts incorporating the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation, p. [80]-87.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 6768.