This following URL is on a server at the U. of Rochester
http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/whitford/1906/
It's got the majority of Noble Whitford's 1906 history of the NY canals.
For information of Wright, see chapters 1, 2 and 24 in Volume I and the
chapter on the Biographies of Engineers in Volume II.
Bill Carr
Ballston Lake, NY