Mayor’s Court Records

Item

Country

Name of institution (official language of the state)

New York County Clerk's Office, Division of Old Records

Language of name of institution

eng

Contact information: postal address

31 Chambers Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10007

Contact information: web address

https://ww2.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/supctmanh/county_clerk_records.shtml

Title (official language of the state)

Mayor’s Court Records

Language of title

eng

Creator / accumulator

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

Date note

Since 1674

Language(s)

eng

Type of material

Textual Material

Scope and content

The Mayor's Court records include briefs, warrants, jury lists, and lists of cases from the Marine Court of New York City, called the "Mayor's Court", dating back to 1674. Some of these records are court cases involving Jews. See a list in the description of the collection of copies kept in the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive in Cincinnati, Ohio.

New York (N.Y.) Mayor's Court Records

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 Court of Common Pleas of the City of New York was abolished by the Constitution of 1894, 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: subject terms

Sephardim in North America

Legal matters

Trade and commerce

17th century

18th century

Access points: document types

Legal records

Existence and location of copies

New York (N.Y.) Mayor's Court Records

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

Samuel Oppenheim Papers

Author of the description

Carla Vieira, 2023

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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Title	Alternate label	Class
New York County Clerk's Office, Division of Old Records	Collections (official language of the state)

Is Version Of
Title	Alternate label	Class
Samuel Oppenheim Papers	Existence and location of originals
Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs	Existence and location of originals
New York (N.Y.) Mayor's Court Records	Existence and location of originals