Mayor’s Court Records

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Country: US
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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Items with "Existence and location of originals: Mayor’s Court Records"
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Mayor's Court (New York, N.Y.) selected briefs
New York (N.Y.) Mayor's Court Records
Samuel Oppenheim Papers

Items with "Collections (official language of the state): Mayor’s Court Records"
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New York County Clerk's Office, Division of Old Records