History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . nt company lYTfwiflpd flip <*nm nf Picrhtv- Canal Boat and Freight House of Merrimack Boating Company. two thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars. The Unioncanals obtained thirty thousand dollars as the avails of Bow, Hooksett, Amoskeag, Union, and Wicassee enterprises hadindependent charters and gathered independent tolls. The originaldam at Garvins falls (Bow) appears to have been built under thesuperintendence of John Carter, of
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . nt company lYTfwiflpd flip <*nm nf Picrhtv- Canal Boat and Freight House of Merrimack Boating Company. two thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars. The Unioncanals obtained thirty thousand dollars as the avails of Bow, Hooksett, Amoskeag, Union, and Wicassee enterprises hadindependent charters and gathered independent tolls. The originaldam at Garvins falls (Bow) appears to have been built under thesuperintendence of John Carter, of Concord, a soldier of the Revolu-tion and a lieutenant-colonel of the War of 1812. The Middlesexcompany owned, as a corporation, shares in the Bow, Hooksett, andUnion canals; it owned the whole of the Wicassee; and its share-holders as individuals owned the whole of the Amoskeag. JohnL. Sullivan is reported to have said, in 1817, that the assessmentspaid in to the Middlesex company, which covered its interests in thesmaller canals, amounted to five hundred ninety-two thousand dol-lars. Other accounts say the sum was twice as 836 HISTORY OF CONCORD. The first boat of the Merrimack Boating company made its wayto Concord, October 20, 1814, and in June, 1815, regular semi-weekly service was established, with the promise of more frequentdepartures if the traffic should permit, as shortly thereafter it landing was constructed just below the site of Concord bridge,with Samuel Butters as agent, and another near Federal bridge, whereStephen Ambrose did the honors. This was ten years before the com-pletion of the Erie canal. These events were important to an inland town, but the arrival ofthe first boat, toward the close of the war with England, did not dis-turb the gravity of the people. Three years later, July 18, 1817,President Monroe embarked on the canal boat President to viewthe picturesque water above Turkey falls, now the summer solace ofthe Passaconaway club, an
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