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Contains 34 Results:

Correspondence and Legal Records, 1854

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Includes "statement showing the aggregate number of acres of land selected for the purposes of the Saint Mary's Falls Ship Canal in the Upper and Lower Penninsulas in Michigan".

Dates: 1854
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 694, Horatio Seymour papers / Correspondence and Legal Records

Correspondence and Legal Records, 1855

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes an 1855 paper by Michigan Governor Kingsley Scott Bingham, concerning the transfer of the completed Saint Mary's Falls Canal.

Dates: 1855
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 694, Horatio Seymour papers / Correspondence and Legal Records

Correspondence and Legal Records, 1856

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Includes an April 1, 1856 legal suit brought by the Black River and Utica railroad Company against Benjamin Tibbits.

Dates: 1856
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 694, Horatio Seymour papers / Correspondence and Legal Records

Correspondence and Legal Records, 1857 - 1860

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Includes publication entitled "560,000 Pine Lands, in the State of Michigan, with Lumber Statistics, and other Valuable Information Concerning the Pine Lands of the Saint Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company". Also includes 1857 inventory of stocks and bonds held by Benjamin Tibbits, with purchase and market prices listed and 1858 letters from William A. Seaver to Horatio Seymous concerning Seaver's bankruptcy.

Dates: 1857 - 1860
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 694, Horatio Seymour papers / Correspondence and Legal Records

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