…Untitled Survey of Farmland, c.1835, ink on paper Courtesy Jervis Public Library, drawing #291. Photo: G. R. Farley Bailey, situated on the hanks of the Croton which it instantly carried away, together with their dwelling houses and tenant houses…

…go...They were interested in things like the stone sides of the aqueduct, the fact that John Jervis, who was the chief engineer, and his predominantly Irish workmen put stones along the outside of the aqueduct...The aqueduct was built…

…Douglass was employed as Chief Engineer; he proceeded in the location of the line for the Aqueduct and in preparing plans, until October, 1836, when he was succeeded by John B. Jervis, who continued at the head of that department…