Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts . l Dana secretary. Isaiah Rogers wasthe architect, and the building committee consisted of Andrew E. Bel-knap, vSamuel Henshaw, Isaac Livermore, Thaddeus Nichols, jr., andThomas Lamb. The corner stone was laid August 2, 1841, by the ven-erable Colonel Perkins, who made an interesting address giving hisreminiscences of sixty years ago. A leaden box was placed underthe stone, containing a silver plate, suital)ly inscribed, together withone or more of each of the American coins then in use, a pine-tree shil-ling contributed by
Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts . l Dana secretary. Isaiah Rogers wasthe architect, and the building committee consisted of Andrew E. Bel-knap, vSamuel Henshaw, Isaac Livermore, Thaddeus Nichols, jr., andThomas Lamb. The corner stone was laid August 2, 1841, by the ven-erable Colonel Perkins, who made an interesting address giving hisreminiscences of sixty years ago. A leaden box was placed underthe stone, containing a silver plate, suital)ly inscribed, together withone or more of each of the American coins then in use, a pine-tree shil-ling contributed by Isaac P. Davis, a Boston Directory, and copies ofthe newspapers of the day. When the building was taken down in1881), this box was deposited with the Bostonian Society, and at themonthly meeting, October 8, it was formally opened and its contentswere examined with much interest by the members of the society andothers present. l^^arly in the summer of 1844 Mr. Enoch Train, who had been en-<:aed in the leather trade, and in connection with this in the trade. As^JXk^S^^Gu^k^ rRADII AND COMMERCE. 145 with South America, started his celebrated line of Liverpool sail-ing packets. It may seem strange to us now, that a sagacious mer-chant should undertake to establish such a line from Boston, side by-side with the Cunard steamers; but it should be remembered that thepaddlewheel vessels then in use could accommodate only a small quan-tity of cargo, and that this was subject to a high rate of freight. In-stead of interfering with the transportation on the ocean of ordinarymerchandise, these mail steamers stimulated the foreign trade of theport by the facilities they offered for the transmission of orders and forthe speedy conveyance of business men to and from Europe. So faras exports were concerned, it may be said that they took away next tonothing, and the goods they brought from England were of the mostvaluable kind. It was twelve or fifteen years after the first arrival ofthe Brit
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