Records Relating to Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Pardons

The surviving records of the colonial Supreme Court are in the New York County Clerk's Office. (A 1799 statute empowered the court to destroy all criminal indictments and other case papers pre-dating 1776; the only surviving records are minutes.) Court of Assizes (1665-1683) This court had both civil and criminal jurisdiction. The few surviving records of this court are in the New York State ... ................
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