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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of the dockets of judgments filed by the clerk of the Supreme Court at Albany.

Each entry in the docket book gives the following information: name of party against whom judgment has been obtained, name of party in whose favor judgment has been obtained, amount of debt, amount of damages and costs, date of signing judgment (omitted in later volumes), date of filing judgment roll (later volumes also give the hour of filing), name of attorney for losing party, and date of satisfaction if any. There are separate dockets for each court term, several bound in each volume. The dockets were kept pursuant to a law of 1798 requiring that the dockets be compiled from April 22, 1797 and that transcripts be sent to the other court clerks.