decisions (judicial records)

Order issued by Governor Richard Nicolls and the Court of Assizes, authorizing John Richbell, Mamaroneck, to act as administrator in New York for the estate of Samuel Andrews; signed by Matthias Nicolls, Secretary.

Order of the County Court held at Cambridge, Mass. that the estate of Samuel Andrews represented by Nicholas Davison, administrator, owes Richard Russell £144 10s 10p; copied and attested by Thomas Danforth, recorder; entered at the Record Office, New York, April 16, 1668, by Matthias Nicholls, secretary.

Order of the Governor, Richard Nicolls, and the Council overturning the verdict in favor of the Town of Huntington by of the Court of Assizes held at New York in the matter of John Richbell vs. Town of Huntington; Richbell had appealed the jury's decision to the Governor and Council and was awarded possession of Lloyd Neck; signed by Richard Charlton, clerk of the Assizes.

Copy of a lawsuit held September 28-29, 1665 between John Richbell, Oyster Bay, plaintiff, and the Town of Huntington, defendant, finding for the defendant that Lloyd Neck is part of Huntington; copied April 26, 1731 by Frederick Morris, deputy secretary.

Copy of a order of the County Court held at Cambridge, Mass. that the estate of Samuel Andrews represented by Nicholas Davison, administrator, owes Richard Russell £144 10s 10p; copied and attested by Thomas Danforth, recorder; examined and approved in New York, November 28, 1662, by Matthias Nicholls, secretary.

Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1677; also includes the verdict in a suit brought by George Dennis against Edward Wright who Dennis charged with abusing Dennis's maid; Wright was fined 20 shillings plus costs.

Decision of John Nanfan, Governor, the Council, and the Court of Chancery in Thomas Lawrence's lawsuit against William Hallett, Sr., William Hallett, Jr., Samuel Moore, Isaac De Riemer and his wife, Aeltie, Richard Ashfield and his wife, Maria, and John Jefford over a tract of land in western Queens formerly owned by Warnaer Wessels, deceased. Wessels had bargained to sell the land to Jefford, but died before delivering the deed to Jefford; Wessels's heirs sold the property to the Halletts who then sold it to Moore. Meanwhile, Jefford sold the land to Lawrence.

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