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...