pp. 344-374 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: 1830-1879
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 6	pp. 344-374 of typed material	  Philadelphia newspaper account of first run of new steamboat Burlington on Delaware and testimonials to John Stevens.  Secretary of Treasury Samuel D. Ingham's letter to John Stevens inviting suggestions for means of preventing explosions of steam boilers.  Extract from 7th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica on American development of steam navigation giving large credit to Robert L. Stevens.  Letter of Stevens' four sons offering for exhibition a replica of John Stevens' 1804 steamboat.  Opinion of three judges appointed by the American Institute who after examining Stevens' 1804 replica, attested to its validity as to time of manufacture and to design of screw propellor.  "Reminiscence of an Old Traveler" describing career of John Stevens.  New York World newspaper account of development of Hoboken ferry service by John Stevens and his sons, including the "horseboats" (paddle wheel ferries driven by horses).