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Canals -- New York (State)

 Subject
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Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Lovell, Nash, Kellogg and Wilson account books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 269
Scope and content

Account books documenting Egbert Lovell's general store transactions from 1850-1855 and A. Nash's lumber transactions from 1846-1848, some of the latter having to do with the transport of lumber on New York State canals. Also includes the account books of William Kellogg of West Danby, New York and 1889-1901, and Ithaca, New York 1905 as well as an account book of Joseph Wilson, 1817-1839.

Dates: 1817-1905.

Lyman A. Spalding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.

Dates: 1811-1864 (bulk)

New York State canals records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 194
Scope and content

List of claims against canals (1861); record of employees, wages, appointments, and locations (1878-1881): includes Erie Canal, Oswego Canal, and Champlain Canal.

Dates: 1861-1881.

New York State pamphlet collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1439
Abstract

Pamphlets mainly about or issued in New York State, on political, historical, religious, and engineering topics.

Dates: circa 1800-1946-(bulk 1820-1900).

Schuyler County account books and registers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 232
Scope and content Manuscript records (7 volumes) of financial transactions and voter registration in various towns in Schuyler County and vicinity. Included are a Montour Assessment Roll, listing the names of taxpayers and their tax amounts, 1869; Poll-List, 2nd District of Dix, listing voters' names, 1870; account book for the Willow Creek station of the Lehigh Valley Rail Road, May 1889-January 1893; register of voters in Burdett, Schuyler County, including residents of Hector, Watkins Glen, Montour Falls,...
Dates: 1830-1917.

Seneca Lake steamer and Elmira canal records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938669]
Identifier: 14
Scope and content

Transportation waybills and lists of passenger points of origin, destinations, and fares for a steamboat on Seneca Lake. Also, a Junction Canal Company list of boats that passed through a canal toll station at Elmira, New York, in August 1867, with the boat name, captain's last name, points of origin and destination, and toll collected for each one.

Dates: 1867.

Willers family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 652
Abstract

Letters and other material relating to patronage and machine politics of the Democratic Party in Seneca County.

Dates: 1820-1908.

William C. Bouck papers

 Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 2206
Abstract

Correspondence, appointment papers, official documents, and other papers chiefly relating to Bouck's political career.

Dates: 1727-1866.

William Pierrepont White collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 399
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and related families.

Dates: 1728-1939.