Records, 1794-1900.

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Records, 1794-1900.

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Records of the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, which was incorporated in 1814 to build a dam across the tidal marsh lands of the Charles River in Boston in order to produce power for mills. The project was begun under the direction of engineer Uriah Cutting and completed by Laommi Baldwin. Later in the century, the Boston Water-Power Company separated from the Mill Corporation. The two companies arranged with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to fill in the Mill Pond and develop the land known as the Back Bay section of Boston. Papers include deeds, writs, agreements, contracts, proposals, correspondence, and several boxes of bills and receipts. Correspondents include Cutting, Baldwin, Samuel Nicolson, George Bethune, William Whitwell, other Corporation officers, and Harrison Gray Otis. Bound volumes include account books, letterbooks, records of laborers, lists of stockholders, and minutes of Directors' meetings.

17 boxes and 45 v.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Boston Water Power Company

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Nicolson, Samuel.

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Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation

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Whitwell, William.

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Bethune, George

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Cutting, Uriah.

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Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...

Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Joseph Gales, Esq., 1830 Sept. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609817 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, 1797 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610680 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, possibly to Judge John Lowell, 1791 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609819 Otis's career included terms as a judge of ...