Durham boat (English Wikipedia)

Brodhead, Luke Wills (1870). The Delaware Water Gap: Its Scenery, Its Legends and Early History. Sherman & Company, printers. p. 264. This book contains a short chapter on Durham boats, which were in use until the completion of the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal.
Shaw, Ronald E. (1966). "Up the Mohawk to the West". Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal 1792-1854. University of Kentucky Press. pp. 17–18. ISBN 0-8131-1711-9. These improvements made it possible in times of sufficient water for new Durham boats as long as sixty feet and carrying sixteen tons to supplant those carrying only a ton and a half used heretofore on the river.

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The American historical register and monthly gazette of the historic, military and patriotic-hereditary societies of the United States of America, Volume 4. 1896. p. 570. the favorite was the Schenectady boat, called the Durham boat, a broad shallow scow, about fifty feet long, steered by a sweep oar forty feet long, and pushed up stream mainly by man power.
Efner, William B. (2011). "Mohawk River Water Trail Westward; Schenectady, Point of Embarkation". In Rittner, Don (ed.). Schenectady: Frontier Village to Colonial City. The History Press. p. 118. ISBN 9781609492298.

Viera, Joed (2017-05-12). "The Erie Traveler arrives". Lockport Union-Sun & Journal. Lockport. Retrieved 2017-05-12.

Keesler, M. Paul (2008). "10 - The Canals". Mohawk: Discovering the Valley of the Crystals. North Country Press. ISBN 9781595310217.

Lord, Philip L. (1992). "The Archeology of Mohawk River Trade and Transport in the 1790s". New York State Museum. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2012-07-01. After 1803, when boats could travel all the way to Oneida Lake without unloading or being portaged, the big Durham boats became the vehicle of choice. These boats were 60 feet long, eight feet wide and required only 24 inches of water to pass through fully loaded

Lord, Philip L. (1992). "The Archeology of Mohawk River Trade and Transport in the 1790s". New York State Museum. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2012-07-01. After 1803, when boats could travel all the way to Oneida Lake without unloading or being portaged, the big Durham boats became the vehicle of choice. These boats were 60 feet long, eight feet wide and required only 24 inches of water to pass through fully loaded