New York State Court of Admiralty Minutes and Case Papers A3296

New York State Court of Admiralty Minutes and Case Papers

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series consists of admiralty claims cases filed within the jurisdiction of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Claims relate to prize cases; seamen's wages and treatment; salvage; evasion of customs regulations; insubordination; attempted mutiny; and passenger assault. Files may contain libels, monitions, claims and answers, interrogatories, depositions, and court orders. Prize cases are most common and include libels, processes, pleadings, court decrees, condemned property sales, bills of cost, muster rolls, ship owner's instructions, invoices of goods laden, and certificates of clearance.

Creator:

New York (State). Court of Admiralty

Title:

Court of Admiralty minutes and case papers

Quantity:

0.1 cubic feet

Quantity:

1 35mm microfilm roll(s)

Inclusive Dates:

1685-1838

Bulk Dates:

1685-1775

Series Number:

A3296

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of cases relating to admiralty claims filed within the jurisdiction of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Claims relate to: prize cases; seamen's wages; salvage cases; actions arising out of evasions of customs regulations; cases involving cruel and unusual treatment of seamen; insubordination and attempted mutiny; assault upon passengers of an immigrant ship for publicly objecting to a short allowance of food; and proceedings initiated by the Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods in America against individuals for cutting down white pine trees reserved for masts of vessels of the Royal Navy. Files may contain libels, monitions, claims and answers, interrogatories, depositions, court orders, and other papers.

The prize cases are the most numerous and consist of libels, processes, pleadings, decrees of the court, accounts of sales of condemned property, bills of cost, and papers found on board prize vessels at the time of their seizure and delivered to the court, such as charter parties, muster rolls, instructions from owners to the captains, invoices of goods laden on the ships, and certificates of clearance.

Alternate Formats Available

Microfilm: 1 roll; 35 mm. NOTE: Microfilm has unsatisfactory resolution resulting in out-of-focus images throughout the roll.

Related Material

A3297Series A3297 Court of Admiralty Case Papers contains related records.

J0043 1666, 1668 (in Volume 1) and 1683 (in Volume 2).

New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, MssCol 2230, New York Court of Vice Admiralty records, 1753-1770 (1 vol.). Record of proceedings (mostly prize cases during the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763). Digital version included in the New York Public Library's "Early American Manuscripts" website.

Related Publications

Records are abstracted in Charles Merrill Hough, ed., Reports of Cases in the Vice Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty of the State of New York 1715-1788 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925).

Location of Originals

Originals in: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21, Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2004; One Bowling Green, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10004.