New Haven County Superior Court Execution Documents - Platt vs. Lanson Case
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Description
New Haven County Superior Court Property‑Levy Execution Documents – Platt vs. Lanson (1841)
Overview
This collection comprises the original execution notice and associated documents issued by the New Haven County Superior Court on March 10–11, 1841, for the debt‑collection case Platt vs. Lanson. The materials are held by the Connecticut State Library and are digitized in both JPEG and TIFF formats, with OCR‑extracted text. The collection is part of the NHSC BAAI (Black, African American, and Indigenous) case‑papers series, reflecting the court’s historical record of property levies involving African American individuals.Background
The case was overseen by the court’s attorney, Jonathan Stoddard, and involved an unnamed debtor whose personal property was seized to satisfy a judgment. The execution notice was posted on the public sign post in New Haven on March 11, 1841, and the sale was scheduled for 21 days later. The documents illustrate the court’s enforcement procedures in the early 19th century and provide insight into the types of property deemed valuable for debt repayment.Contents
- Execution Notice (March 10, 1841): Textual record of the court’s demand and the list of seized items, including straw beds, feather beds, bedsteads, bedboards, tables, washstands, a writing desk, pillows, cotton sheets, and various wagons and horse‑cart components.
- Auction Notice (March 11, 1841): Public posting indicating the sale date and terms.
- Images: Two JPEG scans (RG003NHSCBAAIPSExecutionsPlattvsLanson002 & 003) and two TIFF scans of the same pages, providing high‑resolution visual records of the original documents.
- OCR Text: Machine‑readable transcription of the notice, useful for keyword searches and data extraction.
Scope
The collection covers a single court‑issued execution in New Haven, Connecticut, dated March 10–11, 1841. It includes all extant documents related to the property levy, the list of seized items, and the auction notice. The materials are public domain and are available for research in legal history, debt‑collection practices, and the socioeconomic conditions of 19th‑century New Haven, particularly as they pertain to African American communities.Entities
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OCR Text
New Haven County, State of New Haven, March 10th, 1841 Then and there I made demand of the within named debtor for the several sums due on this Execution and also for my fees thereon all which the said Debtor neglected and refused to pay or satisfy. Then and there by the direction of the within named creditors' attorney Jonathan Stoddard at thirty minutes past eleven o'clock A.M. I served this Execution on the following articles of personal property belonging to the within named Debtor and in his possession: nine straw beds, four feather or cat tails beds, six bedsteads, six bedboards, five old tables, two washstands, one writing desk, six pillows & bolsters, eight cotton sheets, two pillow bases, five bed built, one comfortable one, bed base, one Dutch blanket, eight chairs, one dark chack blanket, one wagon on iron or steel springs, one sleigh or latter so called, one running part of sleigh, one old sleigh box, two pair old wagon wheels, one plough, nine old wheels, three A. M. letrees, one sleigh pole, one wagon pole, one lumber box wagon, one horse cart, one old wagon body, one part of an old sleigh bottom, and one harness. And on the 11th day of March 1841 at New Haven aforesaid I served this Execution upon two other articles of personal property belonging to the within named Debtor, namely one Barouch wagon so called on iron or steel springs and one chack or boach so called on steel or iron springs and on the aforesaid 11th day of March 1841 I posted the same on the public sign post, in the town of New Haven there to be sold at the end of twenty one days from said 11th day of March 1841 to
OCR Text
1 Plough Andrew Jervell $30 9 Old Wheels 3 axles John Colman 2.25 2 pr Shafts Moses Perkins $7 1 Waggon Bay & Rummers Andrew Jervell $.50 1 " Red 1 Weigh ass " 1 Weigh Boy " 1 Bottom Isaac Townsend 2.00 1 Horse Cart Andrew Jervell 2.75 1 Gumber Bay Waggon Mrs Lansen 3.25 1 Weigh Minus Leyman 1.2 1 Spring Waggon " 1 Old Harness Mrs Lanson 1.25 1 Barouche O H. Carr 14 1 Hacko H E Morton 11 5 Yellow Chairs 30% C S A Davis 1.50 3 Straw Bra 1c 1 C S A Davis .75 1 " 2 " 1 " 3 " 1 " 4 Stewart .12 1 " 5 C S A Davis .17 1 " 6 " 1 " 7 " 1 " 8 " 1 " 9 Capt Atwater .12 1 Plaid Blanket C S A Davis .6 1 Feather Bed-Set " 1 " 2 " 1 " 3 " 1 " 4 " 1 " 5 Pat Haynolda 1.25 1 " 6 C S A Davis 1.12 1 Lot of Ruffles &c " 1 Offroad M-1 .15 1 " 2 .37 1 " 3 .100 Carried Over $604.18.2
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