Estate inventories
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Scope Note
: Lists, catalogs, accounts, or schedules, made by an estate executor or administrator of the tangible and intangible property of the estate, describing the items or classes of property so as to be identifiable and usually placing a value on each.
New York County Surrogate's Court estate inventories
Collection REC-0123
Abstract:
The collection consists of more than 11,000 estate inventories of individuals who died in New York County between 1786 and 1859. The collection was created by the Surrogate's Court, which was created by statute in 1787 and is responsible for the disposition of estate assets for each county in New York State. The collection consists primarily of concise descriptions and valuations of estate assets and debts, in the form of lists. The records, all of which are handwritten, were created by...
Dates:
1786-1859
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Subject Term Details
- Genre / Form
- Estate inventories