New York State Court of Chancery Parchment Rolls
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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:
Series contains oversized parchment rolls that were filed in twenty-one Chancery cases. Document types include bill of complaint,
answer, replication, Master's report, return of inquest, order, and decree. There are no complete case files.
Creator:
Title:
Parchment rolls
Quantity:
2 cubic feet
24 parchment rolls
Inclusive Dates:
1766, 1786-1797
Series Number:
JN320
Arrangement
Unarranged.
Scope and Content Note
Series contains oversized parchment rolls that were filed in twenty-one Chancery cases. Document types include bill of complaint,
answer, replication, Master's report, return of inquest, order, and decree. There are no complete case files.
Though small, the series contains some historically significant documents: cases involving as parties or attorneys several
prominent Federalist politicians in New York City during the post-Revolutionary period (Egbert Benson, William Duer, Robert
Troup); Governor George Clinton as a defendant, in a complex will case; and Charles Williams, prominent land agent in western
New York, as a defendant in a suit by German immigrants with whom he contracted to build a road from central Pennsylvania
to western New York in 1792-1793.
Related Material
J0065 Enrolled Decrees and Filed Parchments and Papers before 1800, contains related records.
Acquisition Information
These records were transferred by the New York State Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration in 2017.
Access Restrictions
Series is closed to research. All documents are tightly rolled, and many are seriously damaged by exposure to water, mold,
vermin, and dirt. Several documents are partly or wholly illegible.
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Detailed Description
Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Item |
Accretion: JN320-17 |
ca. 1766 |
Robert Walton Ads/James Thompson and wife Catherine; Answer ; Partial Document
|
1 |
1 |
1786 |
Gilbert Woodward Ads/ Thomas Hallet et. al.; Answer
|
1 |
2 |
1787 |
Robert Richardson Cross and wife Cornelia., Arthur Jarvis and wife Sarah, and Sarah Waldron, executors of will of Cornelia
Blaau, deceased, vs. George Clinton and Nicholas Bogart; BIll of Complaint; Paper Document
|
1 |
3 |
1787 |
Andrew Goutier and William Smith vs. Daniel Goutier; Bill of Complaint;
|
1 |
4 |
1787 |
Timothy Hurst et al. vs. Gabriel William Barton et. al. ; Bill of Complaint; Partial Document
|
1 |
5 |
1789 |
John Holker (of Philadelphia) vs. William Duer ; Complaint ; Labeled "14"
|
1 |
6 |
1789 |
John Allen Ads" Amos Hoyton (Merchant of London) ; Answer
|
1 |
7 |
1790 |
Micah Williams Ads/ Richard Jackson ; Answer
|
1 |
8 |
ca. 1790s |
[Eli Hayden?] vs. [illegible]; [Uncertain]; Labeled "14"
|
1 |
9 |
1790 |
George Walker ads./ Francis Gurney and Daniel Smith ; Answer; Labeled "2"
|
1 |
10 |
1790 |
Francis Gurney and Daniel Smith vs. George Walker ; Replication
|
1 |
11 |
1790 |
[illegible] Warner ads. / [illegible] Van Orden ; Answer ; "Labeled "18"
|
1 |
12 |
1791 |
Gertruyde Harris vs. John Quackenbos ; Master's Report; Partial Document; Labeled "23"
|
1 |
13 |
1792 |
John Oakes Hardy vs. Peter Middleton ; Amended Bill
|
1 |
14 |
ca. 1794 |
Will Seaman Ads. / Thomas H. Brantingham; Answer
|
1 |
15 |
ca. 1794 |
Charles Williamson Ads. / George Sigismund Lieback et. al; Answer
|
1 |
16 |
1795 |
Samuel Hopkins vs. Robert Hyslop and Thomas Stevenson ; Order for injunction and subpoena
|
1 |
17 |
1795 |
Deborah Horton and Gill Budd Horton, Jr. vs. Tamar Haviland ; Bill of Complaint ; Labeled "6"
|
1 |
18 |
1795 |
Louis Le Guen ads./Isaac Gomez ; Answer
|
1 |
19 |
1795 |
Egbert Benson ads. Andries Heermann and Henry De Witt; Answer
|
1 |
20 |
1795 |
Andries Heermann and Henry De Witt vs. Egbert BEnson ; Decree; Labeled "11"
|
1 |
21 |
1795 |
Peter Skidmore (of Brookhaven, Suffolk County), Lunatic , in matter of; Return of Inquest
|
1 |
22 |
1797 |
Isaac Valentine Ads./ Martha Gleen ; Answer
|
1 |
23 |
illegible |
[illegible] vs. Hercules Wendover ; Replication; Labeled "12"
|
1 |
24 |