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Gordon Chambers collection on Delaware Valley navigation companies

Papers and correspondence of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company and the Union Canal Company. Records of payments, receipts, stock certificates; patent rights for swinging gates to increase the depth of water; contracts and laws governing lotteries; protests against abolition of lotter...

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Main Author: Chambers, Gordon (Creator)
Collection:Gordon Chambers Collection On Delaware Valley Navigation Companies
Collection Number:1148
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Subjects and Genres:
Canals > Pennsylvania
Lotteries > Pennsylvania > 18th century
Lotteries > Pennsylvania > 19th century
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company
Union Canal Company
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Physical Description: 0.2 Linear feet 0.2 linear feet, 1 box, 44 items
Summary: Papers and correspondence of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company and the Union Canal Company. Records of payments, receipts, stock certificates; patent rights for swinging gates to increase the depth of water; contracts and laws governing lotteries; protests against abolition of lotteries; protests against the proposed union of the canal companies. Among the names mentioned are: Henry Drinker, James C. Fisher, Peter S. DuPonceau, William M. Meredith, Charles Ingersoll, William Milnor, Samuel Mifflin, Samuel Breck, Ebenezer Hazard, Thomas McKean, Simon Snyder, and others.

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