1To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 11–12 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
...life working as chief engineer on the Erie Canal. Briggs wrote a letter to the...
2To James Madison from Arthur Breese, 11 April 1794 (Madison Papers)
...Enterprise in Inland Navigation: The Mohawk Route prior to the Erie Canal,”
3To George Washington from Elkanah Watson, 10 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
...New York took over the company as part of the Erie Canal project (see
4To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...as chief engineer on the section of the Erie Canal from Rome to Utica, New York, which...
5To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 14 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...1825 he led the celebration upon the completion of the Erie Canal (
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Eddy, 9 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...the appointment of an engineer to oversee construction of the Erie Canal (
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Moore, with Jefferson’s Note, 21 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Hawley, 2 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...as one of the founding fathers of the Erie Canal. He later served in the New York...
9From James Madison to Thomas Eddy, 10 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...code. He helped DeWitt Clinton with the Erie Canal project, was an active supporter of...
10To James Madison from Nathan Williams, 5 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
...of 1812, and was involved with the construction of the Erie Canal (Dwight H. Bruce, ed.,