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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.
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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