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 Collection
Identifier: MC 1352

North River Steam Boat Company Records

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.