New York State Court of Chancery (8th Circuit) Listing of Receivers, Committees, and Guardians

Alphabetic by last name of appointee, then chronological by appointment date.

The power of the Chancellor or Vice Chancellor to appoint committees or guardians for idiots, lunatics, or insolvent corporations is derived from English precedent. This power was extended to the appointment of guardians for infants by Chapter 106 of the Laws of 1815 and to the appointment of committees for habitual drunkards by Chapter 109 of the Laws of 1821.

This series is an alphabetical listing of receivers, committees, and guardians appointed by the Vice Chancellor. The information is organized in columns. Each entry contains: the name and place and county of residence of the appointee; the name of the case for which he was appointed; volume and page number where the case appears in Clerk's Minutes of Causes 1830-1847 (Series J0073); date of appointment; whether a receiver, committee or guardian was appointed; date of filing the property inventory and annual reports of accounts of the dependent person or insolvent corporation; and when and how the case was discharged.

J0073Series J0073, New York State Court of Chancery (1st through 8th Circuits) Clerk's Minutes of Causes, contains cases referred to in this series.

The Court of Appeals placed these records on deposit at the Historical Documents Collection, Queens College, from 1973-1982.

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