1To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...for his expenses, arguing that it had not authorized the survey. Finally in 1818 Briggs received some compensation from Congress. Briggs worked as chief engineer on the section of the Erie Canal from Rome to Utica, New York, which was finished in 1819, and he completed the James River and Kanawha Canal in 1823. He also supported domestic manufactures, sending a statement on agriculture,...
2To 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 (
3To 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 (
4To 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,
5To 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...
6Peter B. Porter to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]
7Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
8Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
9Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry] maps; of projected Erie Canal [index entry]
10Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 16 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
...Briggs’s expenses himself. The legislature did not vote to settle his federal accounts until 1818. Briggs resigned his federal surveyorship in 1807 and returned to other business ventures. He worked as an engineer on a section of the Erie Canal, and when that was completed in 1819 he moved to
11DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
12Valentine Gill to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
as an engineer surveying the route for the Champlain and Erie canals. Gill settled by 1819 in
13Elkanah 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 (
14DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
15Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 9 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry]
16Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
of a section of the Erie Canal, for the Erie Canal while
17Thomas Eddy to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]
18Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal [index entry]
19Tadeusz Kosciuszko to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Erie Canal [index entry]
20Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Briggs, Isaac; and Erie Canal [index entry] Erie Canal [index entry]
21William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
was the Erie Canal.
22William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
was the Erie Canal.
23To 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.