Morris Canal and Banking Company

Content Note

As required by the abandonment agreement of 29 November 1922, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company delivered to the Board of Conservation and Development on 1 March 1923 "all documents, maps, records, deeds and muniments of title relating to any of the property to be conveyed or transferred to the State of New Jersey." Abstracts of these documents were typed onto standard printed forms, which were arranged by weir tract number and document date, and then bound into three volumes.

Most of the original deeds, leases, releases, diagrams, and correspondence referred to in these abstracts can be found in the series Title Paper Files, ca. 1820s-1950s (with cancelled leases in box 10 of that series). Original agreements, however, were turned over to buyers of canal company land for the most part (along with some deeds), and only a small number of these can be found in original form in the title paper files. The abstracts also refer to the condemnations of 1831, as well as to occupancies of properties in 1923.

225 West State Street
P.O. Box 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
609.292.6260 (general information)
609.633.8334 (administrative office)
609.292.9105 (fax)