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Preferred Citation

John E. Bossieux Papers, Manuscript MS 37.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1937.

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1561.

Biographical/Historical Information

John E. Bossieux was the president of the Richmond, Williamsburg and Central Turnpike Company.

Scope and Content Information

Stock certificate, December 27, 1873, issued to John E. Bossieux for seventy shares in the Richmond, Williamsburg, and Central Turnpike Company signed by Bossieux as president of the company and Thomas S. Armistead as secretary; also power of attorney from Bossieux to Mann S[atterwhite] Quarles to sell seventy shares of stock in the company, witnessed by C. C. Cawthorn.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Armistead, Thomas S.
• Bossieux, John E.
• Cawthorn, C. C.
• Quarles, Mann Satterwhite, 1845- 1909.

Subjects:

• Stock companies--Virginia.
• Toll roads--Virginia.

Corporate Names:

• Richmond, Williamsburg and Central Turnpike Company.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Power of attorney--Virginia--19th century.