Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. [manuscript], 1828-1829.

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Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. [manuscript], 1828-1829.

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In a letter, 1828 September 4, John Cox, Mayor of Georgetown, forwards to the Board of Alderman and the Board of Common Council several documents from the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company which he has received from General Smith. In a letter, 1829 June 28, Charles Fenton Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Thomas P. Cope, of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, concerning the services of Judge Wright [on the Delaware and Chesapeake canal ?] as he is needed on the Chesapeake and Ohio. He discusses his own work load, loans from Cope's bank, the resultant building boom in Georgetown, and the renewal of the bank's charter. In a letter, 1829 November 9, J. Hoge writes to General Walter Smith concenring C & O stockholders who have not paid their installments.

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Smith, Walter, fl. 1812-1829,

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Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

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