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Handsomely engraved bond of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company in the amount of $1000, one page, 13.5 x 25.5, [1860s], signed at the bottom by John Seabury Eldridge as the company's president. The lower portion retains 60 intact coupons. Triple-matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 33. In fine condition.
The New York and New England Railroad was a railroad connecting southern New York State with Hartford, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; and Boston, Massachusetts. It operated under that name from 1873 to 1893. Prior to 1873 it was known as the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, which had been formed from several smaller railroads that dated back to 1846.
