Manuscript Group 174
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY DEPOSIT of
RECORDS OF THE UNION CANAL COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA
1792-1885
19 cu. ft.
** Note: These materials have been returned to the Historical
Society of Berks County.
Surveys for a canal that would connect the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers,
a project many years earlier proposed by William Penn, were undertaken in 1769.
Forced into the background during the Revolution, plans were revived in the
early 1790's and an actual start in construction was made in 1794. Problems
developed, however, and the venture failed. Finally, in 1811, more favorable
conditions were evident, a charter to build the waterway was issued to the newly
formed Union Canal Company and definite operations were initiated. Completed
in 1827, the Union Canal reached from Middletown on the Susquehanna to Reading
on the Schuylkill. Papers include records of two of the Union Canal Company's
predecessors, the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company and the Schuylkill and
Susquehanna Canal Company.
BUSINESS RECORDS
- Delaware & Schuylkill Canal Company, 1792-1810. (6 folders) {#174m.1}
- Schuylkill & Susquehanna Canal & Lock Navigation Company, 1792-1810.
(5 folders) {#174m.2}
- Reports, 1814-1828, 1832-1874, undated. (3 folders) {#174m.3}
- Minutes (Extracts), 1813, 1819, 1821-1830, 1842-1856, 1873-1875. (1 folder)
{#174m.4}
- Resolutions, 1813-1874, undated. (4 folders) {#174m.5}
- Subscription Book, 1850, 1851. (1 volume) {#174m.6}
- Inventories, Personal and Real Property, 1823-1876, undated. {#174m.7}
- General Correspondence, 1812-1885. (8 cartons) {#174m.8}
LOTTERIES
- General Correspondence, 1821-1833. (3 folders) {#174m.9}
- Legal Papers, 1814-1833. (1/2 folder) {#174m.10}
- Reports, 1821, 1824. (1/2 folder) {#174m.11}
SURVEY AND LEVEL BOOKS
- Survey and Level Books (Figuring Books), 1818, 1821, 1850-1858, 1867, undated.
(28 volumes) {#174m.12}
- Maps, Drawings, 1826-1862, undated. (2 folders) {#174m.13}
- Broadsides, 1823, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.14}
LEGAL PAPERS
- Acts, 1821-1870. (1 folder) {#174m.15}
- Articles of Agreements, 1820-1871, undated. (22 folders) {#174m.16}
- Bonds, 1823-1869, undated. (7 folders) {#174m.17}
- Damage Claims, 1812-1867, undated. (3 folders) {#174m.18}
- Deeds, 1824-1870. (1 folder) {#174m.19}
- Legal, 1816-1877, undated. (6 folders) {#174m.20}
- Opinions, 1821-1856, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.21}
- Petitions, 1812, 1813, 1821, 1837, 1844, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.22}
- Releases, 1825, 1826, 1830-1836, 1858, 1865, 1871, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.23}
- Summons, 1823-1875. (1 folder) {#174m.24}
- Supreme Court Equity Books, 1829-1884. (1 folder) {#174m.25}
ACCOUNTS
- Bank Books, 1832-1877. (32 volumes) {#174m.26}
- Boat Permits, 1835-1862. (2 folders) {#174m.27}
- Certificates of Stock, 1845, 1852-1855. (1 folder) {#174m.28}
- Check Rolls (Pay Rolls), 1816, 1825-1884, undated. (29 folders) {#174m.29}
- Checks, 1822-1882. (39 folders) {#174m.30}
- Clearances, 1832-1877, undated. (18 folders) {#174m.31}
- Due Bills, 1858, 1859. (1 folder) {#174m.32}
- Estimates of Work Done, 1823-1869, undated. (9 folders) {#174m.33}
- General Accounts, 1812-1884, undated. (81 folders) {#174m.34}
- Manifests, 1826-1882, undated. (5 folders) {#174m.35}
- Promise to Pay, 1824-1875. (5 folders) {#174m.36}
- Steam Engines, 1827-1884, undated. (5 folders) {#174m.37}
- Tax, 1829-1882, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.38}
- Timber, 1817-1853. (1 folder) {#174m.39}
- Time Sheets, 1823-1874, undated. (5 folders) {#174m.40}
- Tolls, 1824-1877, undated. (3 folders) {#174m.41}
- Wages, 1812-1884, undated. (8 folders) {#174m.42}
VARIOUS
- Bridges, Lists of, 1824, 1825. (1 folder) {#174m.43}
- Correspondence, 1821-1856, 1871, 1873. (1 folder) {#174m.44}
- Locks and Lock Keepers, Lists of, 1830-1860. (1 folder) {#174m.45}
- Rates, 1842-1845, 1858, 1871, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.46}
- Specifications, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.47}
- Steam Engines, Calculations, 1827-1854. (1 folder) {#174m.48}
- Tunnel Feeder, Remarks, undated. (1 folder) {#174m.49}
- Water Wheels, Remarks, 1831-1835, undated. {#174m.50}
- Unidentified. (1 folder) {#174m.51}
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