Box 0163.01

Scope and Contents Bollman & Co. Invoice (Boiler), no date. (single page invoice itemizing mortgage, notes, sundries, notes paid for claims: Foxall & Richards, Haslehurst & Sons, Joshua Saltonstall, William Davis, John Negus, The Corporational Water, New Boiler, Machinery, New Building, Old Boiler, amount expanded by N. Roosevelt, total amount $70,000.00) (The invoice possibly deals with the erection of a new Philadelphia Water Works (built 1819-22), N. Roosevelt built the original steam boiler for...

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Friend Wetherill from Charles Taylor, (c. 1797) (two page letter written on a folded quarto sheet of paper, addressed on the fourth side to Mr. Samuel Weatherill, North Front St, Philadelphia, upper left corner of addressed side has name Charles Taylor, content of letter is about the fevers occurring in Philadelphia and proposition to supply water to the city)

Scope and Contents Schuylkill Navigation, (c. 1797) - The Memorial of the Subscribers (single page printed document addresses to the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly regarding a petition to incorporate a company to build a complete dam canal and lock navigation from Philadelphia to near Pottsville in the County of Schuylkill. Signatures on the document: Jacob Roop, Daniel DeBeauville, Jonathan Childs, Stephen Whitman, William French,...

Scope and Contents Letter to President of the Select Council dated Philadelphia May 15th 1805 (one page and a quarter of a half folded larger sheet of paper from Nicholas I. Roosevelt’s lawyer J. H. Brinton discussing the “situation of affairs between the Corporation and “ Roosevelt proposing to sell his lease regarding possession of the Centre House works (Philadelphia’s first water works). This letter has a notation that it had been referred to the “Committee who made report on the memorial of M. I....