Beschreibung
Wequonuck Mills Co. Cancelled Check. Dated April 27, 1876 First National Bank, Pay to the order of John Lucas Thirty two 87 Dollars. $32.87 L.A. Gallup Treasurer. Signed on the reverse by: John Lucas, Henry J. Steere Treas'r, by A. Metcalf, and Lewis A. Hyde. The Wequonuck Company was formed in 1845, with a small capital of $8000, by Charles Bliss and others, for the purpose of occupying what has been called the Bliss privilege on the Shetucket river, not far from Eagleville. The rights thus obtained Avere not used by the company, and the charter lay dormant for nearly twenty years. The Occom Company, on a much larger scale than the Wequonuck, was organized Oct. 14, 1864, chiefly through the exertions of Messrs. B. Pierce and L. W. Carroll. The sum of $100,000 was subscribed by twenty individuals, and the charter authorizes an increase of capital to a million. To this company the Wequonuck Co. assigned all their rights and priv- ileges. This, with other purchases, gave them about 800 acres of land in Norwich and Lisbon, and the control of the whole water-power â Â" 44 feet â Â" between the Greeneville dam and Sprague. The upper privilege of fourteen feet is about two miles from Sprague. Here a dam of solid stone-work has been built, 800 feet long, connected with a rolling-way of 300 feet. Canals are begun each side of the river, and two extensive woolen-mills, with all the necessary appendages of factory villages, are in progress. Wequonuck, (abbreviated by the first settlers to Quonuck,) is the Indian name for the low land on the Shetucket, above and below the junction of the Quinebaug. Condition: Wear to the edges. See Photos ebbxE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 91094
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Wequonuk Mills Cancelled Check
Verlag: The Wequonuk Mills, The First National Bank, Norwich, CT
Erscheinungsdatum: 1876
Einband: Stationery
Zustand: Near Fine
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: first.
