1James Madison: Notes from State Papers, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
see Case of [ ] [Erie] Canals
2To James Madison from Simeon Hubbard, 12 July 1826 (Madison Papers)
DeWitt Clinton was a primary proponent of the Erie Canal, which was completed in 1825.
3From Thomas Jefferson to R. Riker, 8 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve, Gentlemen, with great thankfulness the Medals you have been pleased to send me, commemorative of the completion of the Erie canal. this great work will immortalize the present authorities of New York, will bless their descendants with wealth and prosperity, and prove to mankind the superior wisdom of employing the resources of industry in works of improvement rather than...
4From James Madison to Richard Riker and Others, 31 May 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter of April 28th. and with it a Medal of Gold, commemorating the completion of the Erie Canal, presented in the name of the City of New York by order of the Common Council; the Medal being accompanied by a box made of Maple brought from the Lake in the first Canal boat the Senaca Chief.
5To James Madison from Churchill C. Cambreleng, 22 May 1826 (Madison Papers)
It gives me great pleasure to be the medium of conveying to you a gold medal, commemorating the opening of the Erie Canal, presented by the Corporation of the City of Newyork and transmitted to me by the Recorder. I must however express my sincere regret that the late hour at which it was received should have deprived me of the pleasure...
6To 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.
7To James Madison from Richard Riker and Others, 28 April 1826 (Madison Papers)
The Corporation of the City of NewYork have caused medals to be struck to commemorate the completion of the Erie Canal which unites the great Western Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
8To 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.
9To 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...
10To James Madison from Charles Austin, 30 August 1824 (Madison Papers)
.... The seed from which this Wheat was rais’d was imported from Spain some 2 or 3 Seasons since & cultivated by a Farmer of Cayuga county New York, whom I met this Summer on the Erie Canal conveying 250 Bushels to a friend of mine in Troy and who obligeingly let me have one Barrell, although previously engaged for some Farmers of Maryland & other parts of our country. It is said to...