DUKE UNIVERSITY
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Entry #1

Author: Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.
Title: Papers, 1785-1816.
Description: 68 items.
Summary: Inventor, of Shepherdstown, VA (now WV). Business letters, chiefly addressed to Charles and John Morrow, Rumsey's brothers-in-law; minutes (1785) of the Potomac Navigation Company (later the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company); papers relating to Rumsey's business operations, steamboats, and steam navigating; and letters concerning the settlement of his estate.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #2

Author: Smith, William.
Title: Papers, 1829.
Description: 1 item.
Summary: Cataloged from Guide. Letter of William Smith (ca. 1762-1840), U.S. congressman from South Carolina, 1797-1799, and U.S. senator, 1816-1823 and 1826-1831, to John Cox, et al., the Committee of the Corporation of Georgetown, concerning the upkeep of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #3

Author: Peake, James B.
Title: Papers, 1832-1846.
Description: 5 items.
Summary: Personal correspondence of James B. Peake, merchant, concerning employment as a schoolteacher, prices for plows, business conditions in Fredericksburg and Richmond, VA, and the continuation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #4

Author: Conant, Alonzo G.
Title: Letter, 6 Dec. 1861.
Description: 1 item.
Summary: Former member of the U.S. Quartermaster Corps and sutler with the 12th Mass. Infantry. Letter to Julia L. Cutler written during Conant's boat trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #5

Author: Baker, Thomas J.
Title: Papers, 1861-1892.
Description: 362 items.
Summary: Canal boat captain, Hagerstown (Washington County), MD. Business and personal correspondence, personal bills and receipts of Thomas J. Baker, boat captain on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #6

Author: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Title: Records, 1891-1923.
Description: 109 items.
Summary: Business correspondence, daybook, returns of manifests, records and returns of way bills, records of business transacted daily on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Williamsport, MD, and daily reports on boats and cargoes clearing Williamsport from March 30 to April 28, 1911.
Location: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University , Durham, NC 27708-0188.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.