Record Series and Collections

1772 - 1968

Trials in criminal court were recorded in Crown Dockets in the colonial period, State Dockets from the colonial period to 1868, and Criminal Docket; Criminal Issues Docket; or Judgment Docket, State Cases, post-1868.

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1807 - 1968

Judgment and Execution Dockets record money due to successful litigant in civil cases as well as fines and court costs for civil and, sometimes, criminal proceedings. Equity Execution Dockets and Execution Dockets record the names of all parties ...

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1789 - 1936

Miscellaneous Dockets include Costs Docket, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; Equity Prosecution Bond Docket, Superior Court; Equity Fee Docket, Superior Court; Cross Index to Judgments, Superior Court; Lien Docket, Superior Court; and Index to ...

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1782 - 1929

Record of civil causes expected to come to trial during term. Brings forward information from Appearance Docket and also shows pleadings of defendant, prior to ruling by court, verdict, judgment, and final orders. In most counties prior to 1820, ...

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1752 - 1968

The minute dockets record the daily transactions of the court, generally recording judgments in civil and criminal actions or documenting non-juried matters. They also reflect the internal workings of the court, recording the appointment and ...

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1870 - 1938

Includes boxes of records concerning assignees, receivers, and trustees appointed to settle the financial affairs of bankrupt individuals and businesses. In some counties, the records are merged into one chronological series; in others, the records of ...

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Includes other dockets from inferior courts.

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1868 - 1968

Includes records created in hearings before the clerk. These have sometimes been distributed among other series of records based on subject: see also Court Records subseries 919, Inebriates, Lunacy, and Judicial Hospitalizations Records; series 4, Land ...

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1869 - 1968

Also contains Widow's Years Support, 1884 - 1926.Records include Appearance Dockets for the Superior Court, which list civil cases to appear for any other purpose than jury trial, including preliminary proceedings, and document issuance of ...

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1877 - 1944

Also contains Record of Officials Bonds, 1932.Records concerning the appointment, election, qualification, and resignation of Justices of the Peace.

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1778 - 1909

Criminal case files from magistrates' courts, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Superior Court, and, in some counties, other inferior courts, usually arranged chronologically. In most counties, records also include executions issued supplementary to ...

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1772 - 1878

Includes volumes and/or boxes of jury lists and tickets.

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1899 - 1968

Records include documentation of hearings for commitment of insane persons and inebriates, listing the name of the alleged lunatic, oaths of parties testifying to his/her lunacy, and copies of the clerk's order of commitment and the superintendent of ...

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1868 - 1968

Includes Minute Dockets from inferior courts.

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1771 - 1943

Civil case files from magistrates' courts, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Superior Court, and, in some counties, other inferior courts. In most counties, also contains executions issued supplementary to civil judgments.Several other ...

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