Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company.

[Richmond, Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1845]

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February 5, 1845 reply by Walter Gwynn, president of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company, regarding prior communication by Francis E. Rives regarding the purchase of parts of that company. At issue were sale and reorganization of the railroad company and ownership of the railroad tracks in North Carolina. The Petersburg Railroad Company is mentioned in connection with Rives possible relationship to that company.

Includes: Extract from the Twelfth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company to the Stockholders, containing the reply of the President to the address of Mr. Francis E. Rives to the public, exposing and correcting the false statements therein made ; Agreement entered into between the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company and Clements Rochelle ; State vs. Rives, Spring Term of Superior Court of Law and Equity of Northampton County, N.C. ; and correspondence by Walter Gwynn (President of Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company), Francis E. Rives, Ethelred J. Peebles (Sheriff), B.F. Moore, Esq., and Richmond M. Pearson. Some are extracts from letters published by the Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald. Documents are dated from 1843-1845.

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