Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals.

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Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals.

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Title

Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals.

Subject

Stone, William L. (William Leete), 1792-1844
New York (N.Y.) Common Council
Seneca Chief
Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828.
Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834
Erie Canal
New York (State)
New York
Albany (N.Y.)
Celebration
Memoir

Description

Illustrated title page found on page 105 for the appendix which contains An account of the grand canal celebration at New York, November the fourth, 1825. Also found in the appendix (pp. 105-411) is a Narrative of the festivities observed in honor of the completion of the Grand Erie Canal, uniting the waters of the great western lakes with the Atlantic Ocean prepared by William L. Stone at the request of the Committee of the Corporation of the City of New York.
Status: Currently not held at Mina Rees Library.

Source

Excerpted from original publication: Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals. Albany: Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York, by W. A. Davis, 1825. ACCESSION# 0408.F1.11; EC049

Date

1825

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Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals.

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"Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York Canals.," in Opening of the Erie Canal, Item #412, http://library.gc.cuny.edu/erie_canal/items/show/412 (accessed June 19, 2013).