pp. 74-144 of typed material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
label: Collection Creator
content: Stevens, John, 1749-1838
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content: John Stevens Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1813
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence of John Stevens with William J. Duane of Pennsylvania State Legislature and others relative to a project for elimination of a sandbar that obstructed navigation of the Delaware River below Trenton, NJ.  A 20 page letter ("statement of facts") of Robert Fulton to Cadwallader Colden, Esq. detailing alleged misdeeds and false claims of John Stevens relevant to steamboats.  Also draft agreements between John Stevens and Robert Fulton and others regarding rights of steamboat navigation on the Delaware, Chesapeake, Santee, Savannah and Connecticut Rivers and between Providence and Newport.