Delaware and Hudson Canal Company legal documents

Collection — manuscript box: 7 - folder 1

Identifier: 1115m

Scope and content

Legal documents and correspondence surrounding several lawsuits filed by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company against various other firms for failing to pay for shipments of coal, a failure possibly due to the financial crisis of 1857. Defendants in these cases include James Roy and John Knower; Joseph Stackpole and George D. Wotkyns (also spelled Watkins); Harry Bushnell and Moses T. Meeker; William J. Noyes and Pelatiah M. Hutton; the Utica Steam Woollen Company; and the Utica Globe Mills. The cases came before the Supreme Court of the City and County of New York and the Supreme Court of Oneida County.

Dates

1851-1860.

Creator

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, (Plaintiff, Organization)
Roy, James, active 1851 (Defendant, Person)
Knower, John (Defendant, Person)
Stackpole, Joseph (Defendant, Person)
Watkins, George D., active 1851 (Defendant, Person)
Bushnell, Harry (Defendant, Person)
Meeker, Moses T. (Defendant, Person)
Noyes, William J. (Defendant, Person)
Hutton, Pelatiah M. (Defendant, Person)
Utica Steam Woollen Company, (Defendant, Organization)
Utica Globe Mills, (Defendant, Organization)
Oneida County (N.Y.). Supreme Court (Organization)
New York (N.Y.). Supreme Court (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company built a canal from Kingston, New York (on the Hudson River) to Port Jervis, and on to Honesdale, Pennsylvania (on the Delaware River). The company later built one of the first railroads in the United States in order to provide access from the canal at Honesdale to the coal fields of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Its canal operations ended in 1898, and in 1899 the company changed its name to the Delaware and Hudson Company, mainly concerned with operating trains. It became the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in 1928, and continued to operate under that name until 1968. Eventually it was absorbed by the Canadian Pacific Railway.