Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 [Certificate for one share of "Hudson River Steam-Boat Stock."]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04333 Author/Creator: Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Document signed Date: 1814/08/01 Pagination: 1 p. : note ; 12 x 16.9 cm. Order a Copy
Certificate, signed by Fulton, entitling Cadwallader D. Colden to one share of "Hudson River Steam Boat Stock" upon payment of $500. Certificate refers to May 13, 1814, articles of agreement and August 1, 1814 memorandum of agreement between Fulton and Colden and contains receipt, acknowledging payment of $250. Colden (1769-1834), Robert Fulton's friend, lawyer, and first biographer, later became mayor of New York and a U.S. congressman. He also headed the syndicate that purchased the Hudson River Steamboat Company after Fulton's death in 1815. Accompanied by unrelated manuscript receipt, dated February 22, 1824, for shipment of freight on the "Steam Boat Charlotte."
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