1James Madison: Notes from State Papers, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
see Case of [ ] [Erie] Canals
2To John Adams from R. Riker, 28 April 1826 (Adams Papers)
The Corporation of the City of New York have caused medals to be struck, to commemorate the completion of the Erie Canal which unites the great Western Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
3To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 17 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
correct Map of the rout of the Erie Canal extant—On that account it is valuable—It contains also a plan of a harbor at the Outlet lake Erie which contrary to my calculation as the work of future ages is in consequence of being brought in to view...
4To John Adams from LeRay de Chaumont, 14 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
upon our land, immense new tracts which they prefered for many years...other causes too long to be detailled, like the sudden fall of produce & even the making of the great Erie Canal which opened to the Settlers new Countries beyond us...all combined to reduce allmost to nothing the price of our vast properties. I had mean time become security for several of the Land holders—stored to take a...
5Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 18 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
6Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 14 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
7From James Madison to Thomas Eddy, 10 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...to philanthropy, particularly in the area of prison reform, and spent more than twenty-five years working for the reform of New York prisons and penal code. He helped DeWitt Clinton with the Erie Canal project, was an active supporter of the New York Hospital, and a founder of the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane. A founder of a free school for poor children, the House of Refuge, the...
8Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 13 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]
9To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 22 November 1821 (Jay Papers)
The Erie Canal. See also Samuel Young (1779–1850), Saratoga County Bucktail politician, Convention delegate, Erie Canal Commissioner (1816–40), and later New York Secretary of State (1842–45).
10To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 12 May 1820 (Jay Papers)
...Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Robert Fulton, and others, who were charged to purchase the rights of the former Western Inland Lock Navigation and Northern Inland Navigation Companies in 1812. This new company began construction in 1817 on the Erie Canal after the sale was completed by a court-appointed panel of appraisers including Richard Varick and Obadiah German.
11Maria Jay Banyer to Peter Augustus Jay, 27[–28] June 1821 (Jay Papers)
’s daughter and her party of “cousins” (probably McVickers) followed what was becoming a standard tourist route through Upstate New York, the Erie Canal route to Niagara Falls. The post coaches and canal and river boats traversed the route from New York City to the tourist destination of Canandaigua, in eight days. See
12Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
of a section of the Erie Canal, for the Erie Canal while
13Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 9 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry]
14Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry]
15Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
16DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
17William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
was the Erie Canal.
18Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
19Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
20Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
21To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Hawley, 2 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...the pseudonym “Hercules” that promoted the idea of a canal between Lake Erie and the Mohawk River. Years later, after his authorship of the essays became public, Hawley gained recognition as one of the founding fathers of the Erie Canal. He later served in the New York legislature and as collector for the district of Genesee (Gerard Koeppel, ...Union: Building the Erie Canal and the...
22DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
23William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
was the Erie Canal.
24To Thomas Jefferson from R. Riker, 28 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The Corporation of the City of New York have caused Medals to be struck, to commemorate the completion of the Erie Canal which unites the great Western Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
25To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 14 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of a waterway to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie, Clinton won reelection as governor in 1820, 1824, and 1826. He did not run in 1822. In 1825 he led the celebration upon the completion of the Erie Canal (
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Eddy, 9 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...the reputation and effectiveness of the prison declined sharply in subsequent years. In his only other letter to TJ, dated 16 May 1817, he sought TJ’s advice regarding the appointment of an engineer to oversee construction of the Erie Canal (
27Peter B. Porter to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]
28To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Moore, with Jefferson’s Note, 21 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
, 7 [1912], 416; Julius Rubin, “Canal or Railroad? Imitation and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston,” APS,
29Elkanah Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
, where he died. Watson was an early supporter of the construction of the Erie Canal and the movement to establish local fairs and agricultural societies (
30Tadeusz Kosciuszko to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]