Connecticut. County Court (New Haven County), issuing body.
Published / Created:
1794-1805.
Call Number:
MssB C7615 1794 tall
Image Count:
584
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Journal of cases heard by the city of New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805, preceded by an alphabetical name index of parties and attorneys. Among the attorneys are David Daggett, Seth Staples, and James Hillhouse
Alternative Title:
Manuscript journal of cases heard by the New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805
Description:
Manuscript in English. , Pages are numbered. , Index pages X and Z are blank. , Title from typed label on spine and front fly-leaf. , Cases kept in cursive script by the court clerk Dyer White. , Text on page 1 begins: At a City Court held at New Haven and in the city & county of New Haven on the second of February of 1794., Front and back covers gilt stamped with perhaps British royal coat of arms. , Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023 MssB C7615 1794 tall, Description based on print record., and Hicks classification: MssB C7615 1794 tall.
Publisher:
Dyer White
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven County. , New Haven County., and New Haven County (Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Courts, Debtor and creditor, and History
Account book dates from the early years of Davenport's legal career. Among his clients were Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817), then a distinguished minister and schoolmaster in Fairfield, later president of Yale, and Joel Barlow (1754-1817), the notable poet, diplomat, and politician, then living in Hartford. Other clients belonged to such prominent Connecticut families as the Beaches, Merritts, Seymours, and Whitneys. Perhaps the most intriguing client (?) was "Tom [,] Negro of A.W. [or A.T.] Watson," who engaged Davenport's services in 1791 and paid the balance in his labor. (Slavery was abolished in Connecticut in 1848.) It is also possible that he was loaned to Davenport to pay a debt. However, Tom is listed in the index, which is a list of clients.
Alternative Title:
John Davenport, Jr., account book and John Davenport account book
Description:
Title from spine of slipcase., Manuscript on paper., Holograph entries, in single hand, written in black ink; signed., Leaves mostly numbered in ink on upper right recto., Place of production (Stamford, Connecticut) inferred from Davenport's residence; date of manufacture inferred from inscribed entries: "The book begun in the year 1787, John Davenport Jun" inscribed to front free endpaper. The last entry in the account book is dated 1797., Printed lined account book with ready-made tabbed index (in black and red) at the beginning of the manuscript, including the names of clients., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1780300, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023. MssA D275 1787, In English., Description based on print version record. , and Born into a prominent Stamford family, Davenport, a Yale graduate, was admitted to the bar around 1775. After serving in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, where he attained the rank of major, he returned to Stamford, where he spent the rest of his life. In addition to his legal career, he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1776-1796 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1799-1817.
Publisher:
John Davenport
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Stamford, Stamford., and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Davenport, John, 1752-1830, Tom (of Watson), Beach Family., Merritt Family., Seymour Family., and Whitney Family.
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Finance, Personal, Budgets, Personal, Lawyers, African Americans, and Manuscripts, American
Page [2] of cover: "Text adapted from Description of the Sterling law buildings at Yale University, New Haven, 1931.", Page [3] of cover: Editor: Judith Leonie Miller., Includes bibliographical references (page 58)., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b212272, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023. YL 191 W639, and Description based on print record.
Publisher:
Yale Law School
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven
Subject (Name):
Yale Law School and Sterling Law Buildings (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Law schools, and Building, structures, etc