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Title

Testator index to wills recorded in New York City

Series Number

A4699

Summary

This microfilm series is an index to testators in State Archives series J0043-92, Record of Wills and Probates, 1665-1787, and in series 1043-92, Record of Wills and Probates, 1787-1879 (pre-1851 wills only). The index lists testators (makers of wills) in alphabetical order by surname, then by given name. The index provides name, date when will was proved, and book and page number.

Creator

• Sawyer, Ray Cowen,1895-

Access Restrictions

Restricted; microfilm is not available for inter-library loan or reproduction for any purpose.

Title

Temporary State Commission on the Water Supply Needs of Southeastern New York meeting, hearing, and correspondence files

Series Number

10975

Summary

The Temporary State Commission on the Water Supply Needs of Southeastern New York was created in 1969. Its mandate was to study the future water supply needs of the southeastern portion of the state; the relationship of these needs to the water resources available; alternative methods for constructing, financing, and administering the needed water supply facilities; and to make recommendations on how to meet future water needs. Records consist of meeting summaries, reports, studies, publications, public hearing transcripts, and correspondence.

Creator

• New York (State). Temporary State Commission on the Water Supply Needs of Southeastern New York

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation records

Series Number

A4478

Summary

Microfilmed records document the administrative procedures, policies, and operations of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Records include administrative correspondence files (ca: 1975-1992); administrative subject files (1977-1992); projects development files (1988-1992); corporation board minutes (1988-1993); and annual reports (1982-1992).

Creator

• Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Accounts of town assessors and commissioners of taxes

Series Number

A0976

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of accounts submitted by the assessors from eleven counties to Commissioners of Taxes. Information includes assessors name; number of days spent assessing lands, preparing lists of assessments, hearing appeals, equalizing the assessments, and preparing the final rolls. Also included are affidavits stating that the work was "actually and diligently" performed; transmittal letters; certifications of elected assessors and collectors of taxes, and abstracts of assessors' accounts.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

State Senator Franz S. Leichter issue and newsletter/questionnaire files

Series Number

L0230

Summary

Senator Franz S. Leichter was particularly active with issues relating to mass transit, consumer banking, taxation, and governmental ethics. This series consists primarily of correspondence, reports, memorandums, copies of testimony, news clippings, press releases, and newsletters or questionnaires mailed to district voters to inform them of the senator's legislative activities and to solicit public opinion.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Senator (1974-1998 : Franz S. Leichter)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Tri-State Transportation Committee aerial photographs

Series Number

B2023

Summary

This series consists of transparent aerial photographic maps depicting southern New York State, western Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. The maps were created to facilitate landmark planning studies in the areas of rapid transit and the interstate highway system. Names of most streets and roads are printed on the maps, as well as the names of some physical features.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Governor executive orders

Series Number

13685

Summary

Executive Chamber staff maintained this file of photocopies of the governor's Executive Orders ordering the State Attorney General to carry out special prosecutions in New York, Bronx, Queens, Kings, and Richmond counties in cases of corruption by public servants. The bulk of the series consists of amendments citing cases to be prosecuted in each county. Also included are executive orders numbers 1-189 issued by Governor Mario M. Cuomo.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation engineering plan drawings

Series Number

A4445

Summary

Microfilmed records include architectural, engineering, landscape, and topographical drawings; and contract drawings and plans. The records were created to document public structures such as bus shelters, playgrounds, sewers, bridges, firehouses, and seawalls on Roosevelt Island.

Creator

• Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Index to records of wills and probates

Series Number

J2043

Summary

This series consists of a name index to testators in series J0043-92, Record of Wills and Probates from the Prerogative and later Probate Courts, and J1043-92, New York County Surrogate Court Record of Wills and Probates. Information includes last and first names of the testator; year, month, and day the will was proved or recorded and the liber and page reference. Volumes for letters I-L are missing.

Creator

• New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Court of Appeals register of attorneys and counselors-at-law

Series Number

JN590

Summary

The 6 registers in this series list attorneys and counselors-at-law throughout New York State who filed an oath or affirmation with the clerk of the New York State Court of Appeals as required by laws of 1898 and 1899.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Appeals

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Record of wills and probates

Series Number

J1043

Summary

The wills recorded in these volumes were proved (i.e. determined by testimony of witnesses to be authentic) before and admitted to probate by the Surrogate judge for New York County. Each will provides for the disposition of the testator's real and personal property and designates an executor or executrix. The will is accompanied by a record of the proof of will and admission to probate.

Creator

• New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Records on appeal remitted from the Supreme Court, General Term, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, and Court of Appeals

Series Number

J0016

Summary

This series consists of criminal cases, most of which were appealed to the Appellate Division (First Department), and several of which went to the Court of Appeals. The earlier volumes contain many records on appeal from the Supreme Court General term. In addition, there are original court papers such as notices of argument on appeal, signed and sealed appellate court orders affirming or reversing the decision of the lower court, and a few bills of exceptions and decisions.

Creator

• New York County (N.Y.). Court of General Sessions of the Peace

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Indexes to Tri-State Transportation Committee, Tri-State Transportation Commission, and Tri-State Regional Planning Commission aerial photographs

Series Number

B2024

Summary

This series consists of indexes to aerial photographs created for the Tri-State Transportation Committee, Tri-State Transportation Commission, and Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, for use in regional highway planning. Areas covered include the southern portion of New York, western Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. New York counties covered include Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, and Richmond. The indexes consist of composite aerial photographs and annotated printed maps.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Planning Division

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Surrogate Court (New York County) probated wills

Series Number

J1038

Summary

This series consists of probated wills filed and maintained by the clerk of the Surrogate Court (New York County). Each will provides for the disposition of the testator's real and personal property and designates an executor. Wills are signed and witnessed by three persons. The name of the testator and date of the will are noted on the reverse. Records are restricted due to fragility.

Creator

• New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County)

Access Restrictions

Restricted due to fragility. Use with supervision of archivist.

Title

New York State Circuit Court account book of costs

Series Number

JN511

Summary

This volume contains accounts of court costs in circuit courts held in New York County and in other counties in eastern and southern New York. Each entry contains the name of the plaintiff's attorney, title of case, itemized court costs relating to trial or other proceeding in circuit court, and total costs assessed (computed in pounds, shillings, pence).

Creator

• New York County (N.Y.). Clerk's Office

Access Restrictions

Use and reproduction of fragile documents may be restricted.

Title

Supreme Court of Judicature (New York) index to returns of writs and executions

Series Number

J0210

Summary

This series consists of indexes to writs returned by sheriffs and other court officers to the clerks of the Supreme Court at New York City. Indexes to writs returned to the Supreme Court provide date of return, name of attorney, names of plaintiff and defendant, type of writ, and hour returned.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (New York)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Statements of court-administered trust funds (New York and Kings counties) transferred to National Bank of Commerce in New York

Series Number

A1397

Summary

This series consists of statements of court-administered trust funds transferred to the National Bank of Commerce in New York. Most of these funds were apparently set up for the benefit of widows and orphans in New York City and Brooklyn. Some date back to before the Civil War, but most were established around the turn of the twentieth century.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Supreme Court Appellate Division First Department trial transcripts from New York County criminal courts

Series Number

B0815

Summary

This series consists of New York County criminal court trial transcripts which were created for use in appeals. Most of the trials occurred in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace. Others took place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer; in the trial term of the Supreme Court; or in lower tribunals such as the Police Court and the Magistrates' Court.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division. First Department

Access Restrictions

The New York State Archives holds only master negative microfilm of this series. No public use copies of the microfilm are available. Researchers are referred to the Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which holds use copies.

Title

Statement of bonds and mortgages taken by City Chamberlain, New York County, on account of court and trust funds

Series Number

A1400

Summary

This series consists of a statement of bonds and mortgages for loans from trust funds and court funds. Each entry gives the name of the bondsman and address, premises covered by the mortgage, amount and date of the mortgage, interest, appraiser's value, assessed value, insurance coverage, and remarks. Also included is a transmittal letter from the examiner to the Comptroller, detailing irregularities in the appraisal of property pledged to secure mortgages.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

New York County Clerk's Office docket of insolvent assignments

Series Number

JN114

Summary

Two volumes are a docket of insolvent assignments filed in the offices of the clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature (prior to July 1, 1847) and the clerk of the City and County of New York (starting July 1, 1847). Each docket entry includes the year, or year and date, of the assignment; the name of the insolvent debtor assigning his property for benefit of creditors; and infrequently, brief notes.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Prerogative Court

Access Restrictions

Use of fragile microfilm may be restricted.