The memorial and petition of the president and directors of the Chesapeak [sic] and Delaware Canal Company, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. by Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company - 1806]

[Philadelphia, 1806]. 12mo. 20 pp..

Directors George Fox and and Joshua Gilpin petition the state legislature for financial and legal assistance in the bringing to fruition a canal joining the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. The final ten pages contain the a reprinting of the February 1, 1805 memorial – "To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth . . . The Memorial and Petition of the President and Directors of the Chesapeak and Delaware Canal Company. Shaw & Shoemaker 10127, 10130. Library pamphlet binder; fore-margins closely cropped with loss of a letter here and there.