Records of the Boston Aqueduct Corporation, 1794-1827.

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Records of the Boston Aqueduct Corporation, 1794-1827.

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The volume was used by the Boston Aqueduct Corporation to record its act of incorporation, directors' minutes, property deeds, agreements with the towns of Boston and Roxbury, rules and prices, sample contracts, grants, bonds, correspondence, town meeting minutes, etc. Entries are dated from March 27, 1794 to July 11, 1827. There is an alphabetical index at the back of the volume. A two-page estimate for an aqueduct from Spot Pond to Boston is laid in at front.

1 volume (67, [54] pages) ; 43 centimeters.

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Boston Aqueduct Corporation

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The Boston Aqueduct Corporation was incorporated in 1795 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the purpose of bringing fresh water by subterranean pipes from Jamaica Plain in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to homes and businesses in Boston, Massachusetts. The incorporators were Luther Eames, Nathan Bond and William Page; James Sullivan was appointed president; Nathan Bond, treasurer, Loammi Baldwin, Charles Bulfinch, Joseph Ward, Charles Vaughan and Luther Eames, directors. From the desc...

Eames, Luther.

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Baldwin, Loammi, 1744-1807

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Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middl...