Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/4/2025, 3:17:45 PM
Added description
The collection also includes metadata linking each image to its corresponding case file and valuation list, and the subject index that categorizes the records under “Property valuation,” “Divorce proceedings,” and “Black, African American, and Indigenous history.”
@new_haven_ct:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county_superior_court:organization {location: @new_haven_ct}
@connecticut_state_library:organization {location: @new_haven_ct}
@property_valuation_records:collection {title: "New Haven County Superior Court Property Valuation Records - Black, African American, and Indigenous Cases", creator: @new_haven_county_superior_court, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1853, subjects: ["Property valuation", "Divorce proceedings", "Personal property", "Black, African American, and Indigenous history", "Legal documents", "19th century court records"], place: [@new_haven_ct, @new_haven_county]}
@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject-index field for New Haven County Superior Court files concerning Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}
@file_pinax -> documents -> @property_valuation_records:collection
@property_valuation_records -> indexed by -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept
@case_file_009:document {title: "Divorce Tenant 009", format: "jpg", type: "image", ocr_text: "11 Silver Table Spoons $10.00\n6 as Small do 3.00\n... $89.30"}
@case_file_013:document {title: "Divorce Tenant 013", format: "jpg", type: "image", ocr_text: "And the Court further find that the said Respondent is the owner of real and personal estate to the value of Six thousand two hundred Eighty Seven Hundred Dollars... $9.80... Two Thousand and Six Hundred ninety nine dollars... 12th day of April 1853."}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_tenant_009_jpg -> is asset of -> @case_file_009:document
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_tenant_013_jpg -> is asset of -> @case_file_013:document
@valuation_list_009:document {total: 89.30, currency: "USD"}
@case_file_009 -> contains -> @valuation_list_009:document
@court_order_013:document {monetary_award: 2699, currency: "USD", property_valuation: 9.80, date: @date_1853_04_12}
@case_file_013 -> contains -> @court_order_013:document
@court_order_013 -> awarded -> @personal_property:concept
@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject -> indexes -> @case_file_009:document
@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject -> indexes -> @case_file_013:document
@new_haven_county_superior_court -> holds -> @property_valuation_records:collection
@property_valuation_records -> focuses on -> @black_african_american_and_indigenous_history:concept
@black_african_american_and_indigenous_history:concept {description: "Historical records pertaining to Black, African American, and Indigenous individuals"}11 Silver Table Spoons $10.00 6 as Small do 3.00 Sugar Tongs & Cream Spoon 1.50 per Desert Spoons 1.00 Small per Gold Walet 5.00 Gold China per & Colored 5.00 per Bracelets Old & poor 5.00 3 Birds Worth 15.00 3 Bed Quilts 1.50 4 Compartment 2.00 3 pr Wooden Shuts 1.50 4 pr Cotton do .50 2 pr Linen in 1.00 4 Table Cloths 1.00 5 Whit Vessels .50 6 Brown Vessels 3.00 2 Sets Rumors & Forks Tea 3.00 1 do do Air Drying 1.50 Curry Knife & Fork 1.00 Brought up 59.30 3 Old Tin Musters .50 1 pr Candles 1.00 1 pr plate Candlestick .50 1 Old Carpenter 5.00 Clothing for Self 5.00 As for Children 5.00 2 Dress patterns Cheap Silk 10.00 10 Yds Yarn Linen 1.00 Lot of old Crockery 1.00 Lot of Old Furniture .50 About Nine China Shell Bottles .50 $89.30
And the Court further find that the said Respondent is the owner of real and personal estate to the value of Six thousand two hundred Eighty Seven Hundred Dollars, whereupon it is further adjudged ordered and decreed by this Court that the following articles of personal property now in the possession of the said Respondent valued at $9 dollars 80 cents to our Six Dollar Spoons, Six small silver Spoons—Sugar tong—crescent spoon, pair of dessert Spoons, a small gold watch & chain—half of Bracelets, Three beds—Three bedquilts—Two comfortables—Three New Wicker chairs—Four pillow cases—Two pairs of linens—Sheets—many table cloths—White Vessels—Six brown towels—Four sets of knives & forks—Tea & dining—Carving Knives & Forks—Three tin waiters—one pair Girandoles—one pair plated candle sticks—one old carpet—Clothing of Petitioner & her children—Two silk dress patterns—Ten yards of bunting—a lot of old crockery & tin ware one about a guess of other buttons &c and the same are hereby awarded to and vested in the said Petitioner as her own proper goods & estate forever. It is further adjudged ordered declared by this Court that the said Respondent pay to the said Petitioner the sum of Two Thousand and Six Hundred ninety ninety nine dollars from this day the penalty of from the second dollar of interest to pay to Petitioner said sum at 12th day of April 1853. The remainder thereof with the said personal property being an amount not
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