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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughout the state; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map." / Published by direction of the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. ; [Twenty two lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Morris, Robert, 1734-1806. ; Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Howell, Reading, 1743-1827, cartographer. ; Trenchard, James, b. 1747, engraver. ; Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company. ; Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.
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  Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors. "An act to enable the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation ... to raise, by way of lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand ...
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Canal lottery. Scheme of a lottery authorized by an act entitled "An act to enable the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation, and the president and managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Navigation, to raise by way of lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing the works in their acts of incorporation mentioned."
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation. ; Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.
  Description:
  Signed: David Rittenhouse [and four others]. Managers. Dated: Philadelphia, May 18, 1795. Ascribed to the press of Zachariah Poulson, Jr. by Evans.
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