Dates
- Majority of material found within 1800-1858, 1821-1823
Abstract
Receipted bills and accounts; builder's certificate for sloop Diana; and correspondence (1820-1823), chiefly between Charles Rhind, agent for the company, and John Townsend, one of its proprietors, pertaining to the building and operation of ships, finances, and legal proceedings; together with account of the yellow fever epidemic (1823) in New York, N.Y.
Extent
3.1 Cubic Feet (7 manuscript boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition Information
This group of manuscript letters were secured by W. L. L. Peltz from the archives of The Townsend Furnace, Albany, successor to the firm of I. & J. Townsend.
Isaiah Townsend, foundry proprietor and prominent citizen of Albany in the early part of the nineteenth century was the builder and operator of many early Hudson River steamboats in the decades following Robert Fulton's operation.
These letters, largely in the early 1820's are largely from the Townsend New York representative and relate to the building of the early steamers and their operation. There is a series of vivid description of the yellow fever epidemic in New York.
Presented to the Rutgers Library by W. L. L. Peltz, January 1946. cc
- Title
- Inventory to the North River Steam Boat Company Records MC 1352
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Special Collections and University Archives
- Date
- August 2021
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Sponsor
- Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
Part of the New Brunswick Special Collections Repository