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Consisting of variety of documents from the Supreme Courts of Judicature at Albany, Geneva, and Utica. Included are motions, briefs, pleadings, writs of venire, returns of writs of error and certiorari and commission, appointments of guardians, conditional testimony, cognovits, draft rules, affidavits, writs of commission, a few reports of commissioners of appraisal regarding land, writs of satisfaction, ejectment, and eases. Also included are motions and pleadings in cases involving J. F. Cooper.
J1000-82A: Box 13 contains depositions of witnesses in the case of James Jackson ex dem. William Laight, John Jacob Astor, and Peter Smith vs. John Ash, New York Supreme Court of Judicature, 1798. The witnesses were Sir John Johnson, Patrick Langan, Joseph Chew, Timothy O'Brien, Richard Mandeville, all residents of Montreal or vicinity. The subject matter of their depositions was the last will, the business and official records, and the property of Sir William Johnson.
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