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New York Colony Court of Assizes Calendar of the Proceedings of the Court of Assizes

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Overview of the Records

Arrangement

Chronological.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a typescript calendar of cases presented to the Court of Assizes, compiled sometime before 1911 by A. J. F. Van Laer, archivist of the New York State Library. Entries generally contain the date, parties to the case, nature of the case, allegations, court proceedings, disposition of the case, and page number on which the case appears in the minutes of the Court of Assizes (series A0271).

Alternate Formats Available

Minutes of the Court of Assizes are mostly published in: Peter R. Christoph and Florence A. Christoph, eds. New York Historical Manuscripts: English. Records of the Court of Assizes for the Colony of New York, 1665-1682 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983).

Minutes of the Court of Assizes for the period Oct. 6, 1680 to Oct. 6, 1682, are published in Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1912 (New York: 1913), pp. 3-38.

Microfilm: 1 reel; 35 mm.

Related Material

A0271 Minutes of the Court of Assizes, contains related records.

Custodial History

Documentation included indicates this calendar was microfilmed by the New York Public Library in 1975. Incidentally, the microfilm roll contains a volume labeled "Riker Coll., Memoria, Vol. 5," which probably comes from the James Riker Papers held by the New York Public Library.

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