This article was written by Dr. James D. Folts, head of Researcher Services at the New York State Archives. In his last blog post, Dr. Folts … More Historical Court Records at the New York State Archives: Available for Research, Grants for Conservation and Digitization — Part 2 »
This article was written by Dr. James D. Folts, head of Researcher Services at the New York State Archives. Photo: Supreme Court of Judicature roll … More Historical Court Records at the New York State Archives: Available for Research, Grants for Conservation and Digitization – Part 1 »
This article was written by Dr. James D. Folts. Dr. Folts has been head of Researcher Services at the New York State Archives since … More Documenting Our Past: Great Documents of New York Legal History »
This article was written by Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III, Ph.D. Dr. Tatum received his BA in History from the College of … More Dutchess County’s Ancient Documents Collection: Crime & Society in the Eighteenth-Century Hudson Valley »
Two weeks ago, we posted the first half of this post by Geof Huth, in which he discussed the history of court records in New … More The Continuing and Permanent Record of the Courts – Part 2 »
This article was written by Geof Huth, Chief Records Officer and Chief Law Librarian of the New York State Unified Court System. Before joining … More The Continuing and Permanent Record of the Courts – Part 1 »
This article was written by Robert Murphy, president of the Beacon Historical Society. Photo: Descendants of Chancellor James Kent standing before his restored gravestone … More Unearthing Chancellor Kent »
Chancellor James Kent, widely regarded as the father of American Law, was laid to rest in Beacon, New York in 1847. However, over the … More Restoring the Gravestone of the Father of American Law »
The Dooms of Ethelred (978-1016 A.D.) The thirty-eight year reign of Ethelred II is the first for which we have contemporary manuscripts containing the … More Emergence of the Common Law, the Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD: The Dooms of the Kingdom of Wessex, Part 3 »
In 725, the Kingdom of Kent lost its predominance in Anglo-Saxon England and the center of power moved to the Kingdom of Wessex. The … More Emergence of the Common Law, The Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD, Part 2: Dooms of the Kingdom of Wessex »
