Engineering notebooks, 1830-1832.

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Engineering notebooks, 1830-1832.

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The records consist of five volumes relating to the construction of the Delaware Division Canal. The volumes best serve as physical artifacts of the canal construction process. Three volumes give the location survey after the route had been laid out by the engineers. They give the bearings of the canal, along with the amount of land taken from owners along the route, with an accounting of all structures, orchards, farmlands and other improvements that were destroyed or damaged by the construction. A fourth volume is a pocket notebook of surveyor's tables to be used in connection with operating a transit. The fifth volume is Watson's pocket field notebook covering the years 1830-1832. It appears to record local property surveys as well as work on the canal, along with small land transactions that may represent right-of-way purchases for the canal. The last pages of this pocketbook record a trip through Northwestern New Jersey in the fall of 1832. The itinerary included Flemington, Schooley's Mountain, Hackettstown, Great Meadows and Belvidere, returning by way of Easton. It includes observations on the state of the country, the effect of the Morris Canal and the examination of a purported silver mine.

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Hazard, Erskine, 1789-1865

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Morris Canal and Banking Company

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Chartered 1824 under act of legislature; built and maintained the Morris Canal until 1922 when it was acquired by the state of New Jersey; canal discontinued in 1924; company continued to exist as a legal entity managing its properties with the Board of Conservation and Development, a New Jersey state agency, later succeeded by the Dept. of Environmental Protection. From the description of Maps, field notes, estimates, and appraisals, 1828-1834. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7096346...

Watson, John Jay, 1830-1902

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John Watson was an early 19th century Quaker surveyor, residing in Buckingham Township near New Hope, Pa. where the family had settled in 1704. He was probably the grandson or grandnephew of John Watson (ca. 1720-1761), a noted mathematician and Colonial surveyor. Around 1830-32 Watson did surveying work in the engineering corps of the Delaware Division Canal, a branch of the Pennsylvania state canal system, which was constructed between Bristol and Easton in 1827-1832. ...