BOSTON & PROVIDENCE RAIL ROAD CORP Stock 1850 Historic Mass. RR. C.H. Warren SIG

Description

Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation. Stock issued January 28, 1850 at Boston, Massachusetts. Incorporated June 21, 1831 in the State of Massachusetts.
Certificate
No. 5481
was issued to
Samuel Henshaw & Sons for 120 shares
of capital stock (0 per share). Hand signed by company
president C. H. Warren (see bio below)
and
treasurer Henry Dalton
. Certificate is about 7.5” x 9.5”. Black print on vellum paper.
Two beautiful vignettes of early 1800s water scenes, Canton Viaduct left, and harbor scene, top.
The Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation was incorporated June 21, 1831, and chartered the next day to build a railroad between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. Until 1899, when South Station opened, the Boston terminal was at Park Square, with a crossing at grade of the Boston and Worcester Railroad at the current merge at Back Bay station (also opened in 1899, serving only the Boston and Providence Railroad). The original Providence terminal was at Fox Point, from which it ran east along the Seekonk River shore and over the river via the India Point Railroad Bridge into East Providence (then part of Seekonk, Massachusetts) before turning north towards Boston. A ferry across the Providence River connected Fox Point to the South Providence terminal of the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (opened 1837). In 1847, the Providence and Worcester Railroad opened between downtown Providence and Worcester, Massachusetts. At the same time, the Boston and Providence Railroad built a connection west from its main line in southern Attleboro to the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Central Falls. The Boston and Providence Railroad and Providence and Worcester Railroad jointly owned the line south of Central Falls into downtown Providence. On April 1, 1888, the Old Colony Railroad leased the Boston and Providence Railroad for 99 years. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the Old Colony on March 1, 1893, and assumed the lease. The New Haven used the Boston and Providence Railroad as part of its main Boston-New York City Shore Line.
Charles Henry Warren (1798 – 1874) was a Massachusetts attorney, politician and judge who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate in 1853. From 1832 to 1839 Warren was District Attorney for the five southern counties of Massachusetts. In 1839 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas Court, and he served until 1844. After leaving the bench, Warren moved to Boston and practiced law with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. In 1846 he became President of the Boston and Providence Railroad, a position in which he served until 1867. In 1851 Warren was elected to the Massachusetts Senate as a Whig, and in 1853 he succeeded Henry Wilson as Senate President.
Condition:  Very Fine+
, light folds, minor creasing, no tears, minor signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
pen cancelled.
Printer:
Rawdon, Wright & Hatch, New York City.
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