New York State Comptroller's Office Bills and Correspondence of the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad

Bills were submitted to the Comptroller in accordance with a law of 1834 (Chapter 228) incorporating the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company and requiring it to pay canal tolls on freight it carried and to submit statements thereof to the Comptroller.

This series documents the articles and quantity of items shipped using the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company. The bills in this series are "a just and true account of all articles conveyed by a train of cars on the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad." Each bill is signed by the superintendent of the railroad company and includes the toll that was charged for shipment. Also noted is where the items were picked up, where they were to be collected, and in some cases to whom they belonged. The names of the superintendents included in these documents are: Samuel Wildrick, George Williamson, Julius H. Clarke, and Nathaniel Williams. Most of the items that were shipped using this railroad are listed as "Box Goods," but other items listed are furniture, carriages, machinery, mahogany, and a stove among many others. The series also includes abstracts of freight carried both eastward and westward.

A1046Series A1046, Auburn and Syracuse Railroad waybills, contains related records.

These records were transferred by the Banking Department to the New York State Library in 1940, and then later to the New York State Archives. It is likely these records originated in the Comptroller's Office, which handled functions that were assumed later by the Banking Department when it was created in 1851.

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