To the gentlemen. County Commissioners for the county of Plymouth. The petition of the Cape Cod Branch Railroad Company...
Plymouth: April 17, 1847. Broadside letter, approx. 10¾" x 8", on blue paper, signed in type by the Committee of the CCBRR (J. B. Tobey, Thos. J. Coggeshall, Wm. Bates, and Philander Washburn), and also by Josiah Smith, as Chairman of C. Commissioners. Signed in ink at the bottom: "A true copy / attest Branch Harlow / Shff." Petition requesting the commissioners to adjudicate damages caused to landowners from a proposed road from Middleborough through parts of Rochester and Wareham, listing the names of about 100 interested parties. The petition was apparently successful: a 15 mile line was opened by the company between Middleborough and Wareham in 1848 and extended another 13 miles to Sandwich the same year. The Cape Cod Branch subsequently merged with the Old Colony and Newport Railway to form the Old Colony Railroad in 1872. Not in OCLC. Item #57241
Price: $250.00
