New York County Clerk's Office Docket of Insolvent Assignments

Alphabetical by first letter of insolvent debtor's surname, then chronological by year, or year and day, of assignment.

This series consists of one physical volume and one microfilmed volume of a twelve-volume sequence of insolvent assignments created by the court. The index includes a small amount of index data in a single line: year, month, day, and surname and forename of the insolvent debtor. Sometimes, the volume includes notes by the indexer. The later microfilm copies also include the date of filing of the insolvent assignment, and the date of discharge of same.

This run of volumes is assumed to index the Assignments of Judgments (1842–1876), in which the transfer of responsibility for the payment of a civil judgment from the original defendant to another party is recorded. Access to those records is made via the date of filing in this index, since the Assignments of Judgments are arranged in chronological order.

Few entries are present for the first ten years of the 1800s and only a few entries per letter appear for the 1700s. The earliest entries include only the year of the assignment, without the month and day. The index appears to have been created by the courts in 1840 or later.

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

Volumes are certified by the New York County Clerk, October 7, 1887, as being copies of the "original docket of insolvent assignments."

Original register for the period 1840-1864 was microfilmed for the New York County Clerk's Office and subsequently destroyed.

Use of fragile microfilm may be restricted.