pp. 280-343 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: 1819-1825
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Several documents asking relief by the legislatures of New York and Pennsylvania from grants of exclusive rights of steamboat navigation to Fulton and Livingston.  Proposals for improving navigation above tide water on the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers by a new system of locks invented by John Stevens.  An act by the Pennsylvania Legislature authorizing construction of such locks.  An agreement between three of Stevens' sons to establish the Union Line of steamboats to run from Philadelphia to Trenton and New Brunswick in New Jersey