11Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 18 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
12Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
13Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
14To 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...
15DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
16William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
was the Erie Canal.
17To James Madison from Arthur Breese, 11 April 1794 (Madison Papers)
...Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, which planned improvements on the Mohawk River. The company’s early efforts, directed by Philip Schuyler, were unsuccessful (Nathan Miller, “Private Enterprise in Inland Navigation: The Mohawk Route prior to the Erie Canal,”
18To James Madison from Isaac Briggs, 16 May 1812 (Madison Papers)
...national capital in the 1790s, and Jefferson had appointed him to survey parts of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and 1804. Later in his life Briggs worked as an engineer on many canal projects, including the construction of the Erie Canal (Ella Kent Barnard, “Isaac Briggs, A.M., F.A.P.S.,”
19To 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.
20From James Madison to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 11 February 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 4th. inst. inclosing the address of Mr. Eaton relating to a geological & agricultural survey of the vicinity of the Erie Canal. As far as my judgment extends, his instructions are ably drawn up, & give an adequate scope to the researches & observations most likely to be scientifically and practically useful. In the execution of the task objects not...