Mayor&#039;s Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs

Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs

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Country: US
Name of institution (official language of the state): American Jewish Historical Society (Center for Jewish History)
Language of name of institution: eng
Contact information: postal address: 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Contact information: phone number: 001 212 294 8301
Contact information: web address: https://www.cjh.org/
Contact information: email: RCMiller@cjh.org (archive and library services)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
Reference number: I-151
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state): Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs
Language of title: eng
Creator / accumulator: Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.)
Date(s): 1674/1860
Language(s): eng
Extent: 23 volumes
Type of material: Textual Material
Scope and content: This collection comprises microfilms and bound photocopies of all records in the Marine Court of New York City, called the "Mayor's Court," from 1674 to 1860, in which Jews or Jewish names appear in any capacity. These copies include records of briefs, warrants, jury lists, and lists of cases. The entire collection has been indexed by last name.
Administrative / Biographical history: The Court of Common Pleas, also known as the Mayor’s Court, was established by the Dongan Charter of 1686. It was a civil court with jurisdiction limited to the City of New York. In 1691, the court’s jurisdiction was extended throughout the State, and the court was continued under the Constitution of 1777. Under the Constitution of 1846, the court’s jurisdiction was again restricted to the City of New York, and it was given appellate jurisdiction from orders of the Marine Court and District Courts of New York City. Its jurisdiction in all other counties was transferred to the County Court. When the Constitution of 1894 abolished the Court of Common Pleas of the City of New York, it was the oldest judicial tribunal in the State of New York. Its jurisdiction was transferred to the New York Supreme Court.; (source: Historical Society of the New York Courts website)
Access points: locations: New York, New York (USA)
Access points: persons, families: Bueno de Mesquita, Joseph; Carcass, Abraham; Gomez, Lewis; Gomez, Mordecai; Gomez, Moses; Lion, Joseph; Lucena, Abraham de; Navarro, Isaac; Nunes da Costa, Daniel; Pacheco, Rodrigo; Rodrigues Marques, Isaac
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in North America; Legal matters; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century
Access points: document types: Legal records
System of arrangement: Records are arranged chronologically.
Access, restrictions: This collection is only available in microfilm.
Links to finding aids: Guide to the Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs, 1674-1860 I-151
Existence and location of copies: New York (N.Y.) Mayor's Court Records
Existence and location of originals: Mayor’s Court Records
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2022
Bibliography: Dixon, John M. 2022. “Jewish New York Inside and Out: Violence, Ethnicity, and Embeddedness in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan.” New York History 103 (1): 4–13. https://doi.org/10.1353/nyh.2022.0003.; Hershkowitz, Leo. 1966. “Wills of Early New York Jews (1704–1740).” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 55 (3): 319–63. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23875622.; Hershkowitz, Leo. 2002. “Original Inventories of Early New York Jews (1682–1763).” American Jewish History 90 (3): 239–321. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23887391.

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