Maps produced for the Commissioners to Report a Plan for Improving the Navigation of the Hudson River
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Overview of the Records
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
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Albany, NY 12230
0.5 cubic feet
1 volume
Arrangement
Geographic: north to south.
Administrative History
Through an 1819 law the legislature appointed Governor DeWitt Clinton, Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt, Secretary of State John V.N. Yates, Senator Martin Van Buren, Edmund C. Genet, George Tibbits, and Townsend McCoun as commissioners to study and report to the legislature on navigation of the Hudson River.
Scope and Content Note
This is a volume of 16 sheets comprising a map for part of the Hudson River.
The map, drawn by engineer John Randel, Jr. in 1820, shows the Hudson River from Troy south to New Baltimore and provides: depth of river; names of adjacent cities; some street names and buildings; nearby waterways; and route of a proposed canal alongside part of the river.
On the first map page is a certification by Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt, dated January 5, 1830, stating that the maps were made according to an 1819 law appointing commissioners to decide on a plan for improving navigation of the tide waters of the river and that the maps accompanied a report made to the state legislature on March 1, 1820.
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