New York State Court of Chancery Parchment Rolls

Unarranged.

Series contains oversized parchment rolls that were filed in twenty-one Chancery cases. Document types include bill of complaint, answer, replication, Master's report, return of inquest, order, and decree. There are no complete case files.

Though small, the series contains some historically significant documents: cases involving as parties or attorneys several prominent Federalist politicians in New York City during the post-Revolutionary period (Egbert Benson, William Duer, Robert Troup); Governor George Clinton as a defendant, in a complex will case; and Charles Williams, prominent land agent in western New York, as a defendant in a suit by German immigrants with whom he contracted to build a road from central Pennsylvania to western New York in 1792-1793.

J0065Series J0065, Enrolled Decrees and Filed Parchments and Papers before 1800, contains related records.

These records were transferred by the New York State Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration in 2017.

Series is closed to research. All documents are tightly rolled, and many are seriously damaged by exposure to water, mold, vermin, and dirt. Several documents are partly or wholly illegible.