Research

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Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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This series contains bills of lading and clearances for cargoes. Information includes boat name; shipment date; name of consignee for each shipment of goods; description and value of articles; where shipped from and to; weight; miles traveled; and tolls charged for each group of articles shipped. Since .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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This series from the Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department consists of weekly statements of merchandise and produce shipped via the Erie Canal through Buffalo. Information includes quantity of general merchandise and of particularly commodities going west (sugar, coffee, nails, iron, crockery, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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These tables submitted by canal toll collectors provided quantity (feet, pounds, barrels, etc.) of freight passing up or down the canal. Commodities included: lumber, timber, shingles, lime, beer, oats, wool, iron, brick, cheese, butter, flour, ashes, wheat, salt, and "sundries." Reports are fragmentary .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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Toll collectors submitted weekly statements of merchandise and produce shipped via the Erie Canal through the ports of New York, Albany, West Troy, and Waterford to the Comptroller. Statements give the quantities of merchandise (sugar, coffee, nails, iron, etc.) cleared to, and of produce (wheat, flour, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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This series consists of lists of charges for freight carried by boats of the Baxter Steam Canal Boat Transportation Company. Information by boat includes number of trips made by each boat; boat's name; weight; and freight. Also included is information by destination; weight in pounds; and freight cost .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

6

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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Reports from the Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department include information on date; number and location of lock; number of boats passing east, west, north and/or south ,an affidavit that the report is correct. Also included are a few reports of the number of lock tenders employed on various .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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The annual statement from the Office of the Auditor of the State Canal gives monthly totals of the number and weights of cargoes at weigh locks on the Erie Canal. The weekly abstract includes the number of loaded boats weighed and/or bound for various destinations, and the poundage of cargoes weighed .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

8

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department

 

 

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Vouchers in this series contain affidavit of the master of a boat stating that he did not proceed to the point for which the original clearance was issued, and a receipt for amount of difference paid him. Attached is a copy of the original clearance given by the toll collector, giving name of boat; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

New York (State). Office of the Chief Clerk of the Canal Department

 

 

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This series consists of statements of cargo on canal boats on which toll was not paid, kept by a Canal Toll Collector's Office, location not given. Each entry gives clearance number; date; name of boat; home port; master's name; articles shipped; where from; where bound; weight of articles; miles traveled; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

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The Cura?ao records, in Dutch, document the West India Company's activities in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century; supply information about the administration of affairs on Cura?ao; and depict the commercial relationship between the islands and New Netherland. The series includes administrative .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives