1To 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.
2To 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).