Collection #

SC2817

 

 

indiana flatboat
contract, 5 February 1821

Collection Information

Historical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Brent Abercrombie
June 2007

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 item

COLLECTION
DATES:

February 5, 1821

PROVENANCE:

Stuart Lutz, Short Hills, New Jersey, May 2006

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2006.0272

NOTES:

 

historiCAL SKETCH

Flatboats are long rectangular boats with flat bottoms and squared ends used to carry freight along inland rivers and canals.  The flatboats were the popular form of transportation for American settlers who traveled on the Allegheny, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers during the early to mid nineteenth century before steamboats and locomotives became prominent. 

Sources:

Bogardus, Carl R.  Flatboatin’ on the Old Ohio.  Warsaw, KY.  Gallatin County Historical Society, 1984.  Pamphlet Q Collection F518 .B64 1984

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flatboat.  6/25.2007.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of one contract signed by James A. Bryan, Robert Flinn, and George Daile, of Jackson County, Indiana, on February 5, 1821.  In it they are bound to William Russell of Washington County to build a flat bottom boat by the following October. The boat was to be used to take a load down to New Orleans.  The letter discusses the specifics of the agreement over the cost, payment, and dimensions of the flatboat. 

 

 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Indiana Flatboat Letter, 1821

Folder 1

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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