1878 Boston & Providence Railroad REGISTERED BOND 1881 letter Kidder Peabody Co

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1878 Boston & Providence Railroad REGISTERED BOND 1881 letter Kidder Peabody Co
Includes the following:
1. 1878 Registered Bond
Boston & Providence Railroad Corp.
(and 'bond' stub) #77
2. 1892 Letter from
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
(letterhead)
Additional details:
1. Boston & Providence Railroad Corp.
Registered Bond
issued 1878 for ,000 #77
Signed Henry Whitney (President)
To Mary Bishop William Emery B F Hayes Trustees
Boston, January 24th 1878
transferred to Brewster Basset & Co in 1881
2. Letter from Kidder, Peabody & Co (letterhead)
April 11, 1881 requesting 00 7% bond
for Josiah P. Cooke of Cambridge Mass
Signed by Notary Public Charles Eddy, Boston
Embossed stamp on the lower left.
See photos for condition and content (Please note that the watermark does not appear in the actual photo)
From wikipedia:
The
Boston and Providence Railroad
was an early US Railroad in New England, connecting Boston and Providence and is now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
The Boston and Providence Railroad was incorporated June 21, 1831, and chartered the next day to build a railroad between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island.
Construction began in late 1832. The first section, from Boston to Canton with a branch to Dedham, opened in 1834, and the rest on July 28, 1835 with the completion of the Canton Viaduct. Stations in Jamaica Plain allowed the development of one of the first commuter suburbs in America.
In 1847, the Providence and Worcester Railroad opened between downtown Providence and Worcester, Massachusetts. At the same time, the B&P built a connection west from its main line in southern Attleboro to the P&W in Central Falls. The B&P and P&W jointly owned the line south of Central Falls into downtown Providence. (In 1848, the NYP&B connected its line south of downtown Providence to downtown, removing the gap through Providence.)
On April 1, 1888, the Old Colony Railroad leased the B&P for 99 years. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the Old Colony on March 1, 1893, and assumed the lease. The New Haven used the B&P as part of its main Boston - New York City Shore Line.
When Boston's South Station opened in 1899, a new line was built along the south side of the Boston and Albany Railroad to it, near the B&A's terminal. The old line to Park Square was abandoned.
Henry Austin Whitney
(1826-1889)
A newspaper obituary: "President H. A. Whitney. Death of a noted financier and railroad operator. Henry A. Whitney, the banker and ex-president of the Boston & Providence railroad, died 21 Feb 1889 ...Harvard he was graduated in the class of 1846. He became a banker, and invested his capital in railroad shares. He was a large holder in the Boston & Providence railroad..."
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