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Piscataqua Bridge

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Piscataqua Bridge
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Partly printed Manuscript Document Signed. December 7, 1793. 2pp. 6½” x 8 ½”. Signed by JAMES SHEAFE, and NATHANIEL ADAMS, as President, Treasurer and Proprietors Clerk, respectively. In a clean, bright presentation on watermarked ragpaper: the Subscription of the Town of Portsmouth as Proprietor of a Share in the Piscataqua Bridge; nice impressed “Seal of the Proprietors” that displaying an image of what the bridge would look like. At the time it was built, in 1794, the Piscataqua Bridge, built between Dover and Newington across the “Great Bay of the Piscataqua River”was an enormous engineering feat. Its builder, Timothy Palmer, had designed what was to be the longest span bridge in the world.