New York State Court of Chancery Miscellaneous Filed Papers
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
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Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of records filed in cases handled by the Chancellor or by the Vice Chancellor of the 1st Circuit without
resort to an enrolled decree (i.e., through dismissal, a court order, an agreement between the parties, etc.). Files do not
often contain information on the court's final determination of cases. For cases before 1830, this information appears in
Series J0059, Chancery Minutes, 1781-1829; for later cases, it appears in either Series J0049, Register's Minutes of Decrees,
1830-1847 or Series J0046, Register's Minutes of Common Orders, 1830-1847.
Creator:
Title:
Court of Chancery miscellaneous filed papers
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1772-1847
Series Number:
J0087
Arrangement
Alphabetic by complainant's last name, then numeric by file number corresponding to alphabetical arrangement.
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of records filed in cases handled by the Chancellor or by the Vice Chancellor of the 1st Circuit without
resort to an enrolled decree (i.e., through dismissal, a court order, an agreement between the parties, etc.).
Files vary in content but may contain copies or originals of any or all of the following: bills of complaint; petitions; answers
to complaints; Master's and other reports; depositions; transcripts of testimony; exhibits and documentary evidence, including
maps; and other routine legal papers. Files do not contain decrees nor do they usually contain orders.
The series includes some post-1823 files of cases appealed from the Chancery Circuits or County Surrogate's Courts to the
Chancellor. These files contain copies of records from the lower courts. Some files are incomplete, with additional records
relating to the same case appearing in Chancery Papers. This series and Chancery Papers are closely related and contain the
same types of records. Files in this series vary in informational content. Each file, however, will usually contain alone
or in conjunction with the records in Chancery Papers the particulars of the case from the complainant's and often the defendant's
points of view, and the results of investigations conducted and testimony taken by a Master or other officer of the court.
Files do not often contain information on the court's final determination of cases. This information appears in Chancery Minutes,
1781-1829 for cases before 1830 and after that date in either Register's Minutes of Decrees, 1830-1847 or Register's Minutes
of Common Orders, 1830-1847.
Related Material
J0070 Chancery Papers, contains additional records related to the cases in Series J0087.
J0071 Court of Chancery Index to Miscellaneous Filed Papers, indexes Series J0087 alphabetically by complainant's last name.
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Custodial History
The Court of Appeals placed these records on deposit at the Historical Documents Collection, Queens College, from 1973-1982.
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Detailed Description
| Contents |
Box |
Accretion: J0087-82 |
| A1-A17 |
1 |
| A53-A58, A60-A61, A63-A65, A67-A81 |
4 |
| B68 (continued)-B71, B73 |
12 |
| C195, C197-C205, C207-C219 |
36 |
| F16 (continued)-F30, F32-F42 |
54 |
| M187-M205, M1A, M2A, M3A, M3B, M4A, M5A, M6A, M7A, M8A, M9A, M22A, M23A, M24A, M25A, M26A |
107 |
| M27A, M28A, M29A, M30A, M31A, M32A, M33A M34A, M35A, Mc1-Mc10 |
108 |
| P217-P226, Q1-Q8, R1-R8 |
124 |
| S66 (continued)-S73, S75-S86 |
136 |
| The2 (continued)-The12 |
153 |
| The66-The80, U1-U2, V1-V12 |
156 |
| V124-V127, VA-VF, Misc NA-Misc WH, Misc1-Misc46, W1-W2 |
161 |
| W235-W238, Y1-Y12, Z1 |
175 |
