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Erie Canal (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Black River and Utica Railroad records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937638]
Identifier: 1143
Scope and content

Correspondence between Samuel Case and John Thorn relating to subscriptions for stock to expand the Railroad to Lyons Falls, Lewis County, 1865-1866; work estimates for building and repair on the railroad; and other items on railroads and the enlargement of the Erie and Oswego Canals.

Dates: 1854-1866.

Cheever and McIntyre families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3353
Scope and content Correspondence, bills and receipts, inventories, registers, and legal cases of the Cheever and McIntyre families and business associates. Includes inventory of the estate of Samuel Cheever, 1875; leases, blueprints of roads; deeds; other material relating to Edwin Cheever and and Helen McIntyre; and account book titled "Erie Canal, c.1836-c.1838. The papers of the brothers James and Archibald W. McIntyre consist of personal letters, wills, deeds, and business documents; a series of letters...
Dates: 1797-1939.

Clarence Babcock account books and miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 257
Scope and content 17 account books, cashbooks, ledgers, and daybooks from Rhodes & Co., Lester Brown & Co., Roberts Rhodes & Co., grocery, clothing, dry goods stores in New York, Camden, Albany, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Osceola. Also, a typewritten document on the descendants of Amos Merit Babcock, with cover letter dated May 12, 1916; letter from C. Comstock to A.H. Foster, dated September 17, 1869, on letterhead of the Williamstown and Redfield Rail Road and Forest Company, asking to have some...
Dates: 1860-1916.

Culver Halsey & Co. letters : to H.D. Ives

 Collection — Manuscript box 15 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242400]
Identifier: 3356
Scope and content

Two letters from Culver Halsey & Co., Ithaca, New York to H.D. Ives, Havana, New York concerning Erie Canal lumber shipments via the canal boat "Lavina," July 9, 1846 and May 1, 1848.

Dates: 1846,1848.

Faass and Ford vs. State of New York records

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240768]
Identifier: 1107m
Scope and content

Letters and legal documents in the contract dispute between F. Louis Faass and Daniel Ford, on the one hand, and the State of New York, on the other. Included are letters between the lawyers for the two sides of the dispute, detailed lists of the tasks contracted to be done and associated expenses, an "estimate of reasonable profits" under the contract, the claim filed by the plaintiffs with the state Board of Claims, and the brief for the claimants in the case.

Dates: 1887-1896.

John Greig papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1550
Abstract

Correspondence; accounts of purchases, payments, and unsold lands; surveys; tax receipts, contracts, notes, bonds, deeds, powers of attorney; and maps and field notes of the New York Military Tract and city lots of Rochester and Ontario County, New York.

Dates: 1794-1870.

Joseph Baucus letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 33 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246708]
Identifier: 1206
Scope and content

Correspondence relating to the marketing of agricultural products, current prices, living conditions on river barges, and Erie Canal politics.

Dates: 1860-1863.

Kernan family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 772
Abstract

Letters, clippings, speeches, and miscellaneous items relating to the activities of the Kernan family of Utica. Also, included are genealogical records of the Hyde, Butler, Avery, and Clapp families.

Dates: 1776-1922.

Letters from New York State politicians

 Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243317]
Identifier: 104m
Scope and content

Routine notes and short letters from prominent politicians who hailed from New York State, including William Henry Seward, Oliver Phelps, and William C. Bouck. The letter from Bouck is addressed to A.C. Flagg, who was the New York State comptroller at the time (1837).

Dates: 1837-1865.

Lyman A. Spalding notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240339]
Identifier: 747m
Scope and content Manuscript notes from Priestcraft Exposed ..., and manuscript copies of advertisements and articles relating to Spalding's business dealings, including real estate, mill work, and retail sales, mainly in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. Most of the advertisements cited appeared in the Niagara Courier. Also, a manuscript copy of Spalding's petition to the New York State Legislature for compensation for the interruption to his mill and other business holdings from 1838-1859, while the State...
Dates: circa 1829-1905.