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- 2003 (Creation)
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15pp
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Archival history
The 'Wabash and Erie Canal Company Records Construction Work Certificates, 1833-1839' are at the Manuscripts and Archives Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana (call numbers: M 0758, OM 039). They were transcribed and sent to Kerby A. Miller by Colleen McClain in 2003.
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Typed transcript of the Wabash and Erie Canal Company Construction Work Certificates, 1833-1839. Per the Indiana Historical Society: 'The following names are transcribed from the original handwritten receipts, or certificates, issued when contractors were paid for their work on the Wabash and Erie Canal. This is an incomplete list of the Contractors named in the collection of receipts, but reflects surnames that may indicate Irish ethnicity.' Also included is Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with the donor.