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  1. Bridges: Piscataqua Bridge (Great Bay)
  2. S1442 - Correspondence: Thomas Martin to Jedidiah Morse, 1798

    A 1798 letter from Thomas (?) Martin of Portsmouth, N.H. to Jedidiah Morse of Charlestown, MA, geographer, clergyman and father of Samuel F. B. Morse, re: the dividend on Morse's ten shares in the Piscataqua Bridge.The dividend on each share was 75 cents. In the early years of the new nation, New Hampshire took a leading role in the incorporation of bridge companies. In December 1792, a petition was submitted for the Piscataqua Bridge to be bu...

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