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Legal documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Dole vs. Fellows legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246336]
Identifier: 1111m
Scope and content

Printed documents laying out the various sides of the case as it came before the New York State Supreme Court and the state Court of Appeals. Included are the points made by the attorneys for the defendant and the plaintiff, and opinions of two judges.

Dates: 1850-1854.

Draper vs. Romeyn records

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240750]
Identifier: 1108m
Scope and content

Manuscript notes and printed court documents in the case, which went to the Court of Appeals in New York City.

Dates: 1854-1855.

Faass and Ford vs. State of New York records

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240768]
Identifier: 1107m
Scope and content

Letters and legal documents in the contract dispute between F. Louis Faass and Daniel Ford, on the one hand, and the State of New York, on the other. Included are letters between the lawyers for the two sides of the dispute, detailed lists of the tasks contracted to be done and associated expenses, an "estimate of reasonable profits" under the contract, the claim filed by the plaintiffs with the state Board of Claims, and the brief for the claimants in the case.

Dates: 1887-1896.

Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract

The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.

Dates: 1728-1973.

Green vs. Winter documents

 Collection
Identifier: 1942
Abstract

A court-ordered report on the monies received from May 1807-January 1811 by Joseph Winter, presented to the New York State Court of Chancery in New York City.

Dates: 1810-1811.

Hall vs. Green legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246385]
Identifier: 1126m
Scope and content

5 items including printed legal documents laying out the case, and the plaintiff's and defendant's points, as argued before the Oneida County Supreme Court and Oneida County Court of Appeals.

Dates: 1851-1853.

Jefferson, New York legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240743]
Identifier: 1110m
Scope and content Indentures for the sale of land in Jefferson, Chemung County, New York. Most of them involve Samuel Watkins and his wife Cynthia Anne Watkins as the buyers or sellers; two of them involve William L. Denton. Other buyers or sellers include William P. Lee of Reading, Steuben County; and Alvin Coburn of Jefferson, selling land to Thomas Braham of Reading. Also included are legal documents incorporating the First Baptist Church and Society and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Jefferson, and an...
Dates: 1845-1849.

John L. Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065201588]
Identifier: 813
Scope and content

Correspondence, mortgages, bonds, deeds, tax receipts, road warrants, accounts, merchandizing bills, legal material, a diary (1869), and memorandum books of Smith and other farmers in Steuben County, New York.

Dates: 1848-1917.

Joseph Salter papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239976]
Identifier: 512
Scope and content

Letters, leases, and notices of suits to Salter in Buffalo, New York; also, a letter from J. H. Edmonds of Utica, New York concerning possible letters of General Washington still in existence in the possession of Mr. Mann of the Legislature at Albany; letters to George A. Moore concerning shipments of salt and cheese by canal.

Dates: 1837-1851.

Legal documents - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia

 Collection
Identifier: 4780
Abstract

Legal documents include wills, estate inventories, indentures and other land documents, summonses and other court documents, and accounts. Many relate to the ownership of slaves.

Dates: 1750-1879.