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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:
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
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