Legal document pertaining to a mortgage dispute between Nathan A. Cohen and Richard Bohun Baker, signed by James Simons on September 22, 1855. The document details the legal proceedings related to the dispute. This document is located in Charleston, South Carolina.
Subject: 19th Century Legal History
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This archival collection consists of three documents related to the arrest of Lazarus Ulman for peddling without a license in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1862. The documents include a subpoena, an arrest warrant, and an indictment sheet. The subpoena also names Isaac Ulman. The documents are housed together in an original court jacket. Lazarus Ulman (ca. 1793-post 1860) was a Jewish merchant who immigrated to the United States before 1828 from Germany or Russia. His sons served in the Civil War, and his grandson changed his name to Douglas Fairbanks, a renowned Hollywood actor. The documents provide insight into 19th-century legal practices and the life of a Jewish merchant family in Pennsylvania.
Signed legal letter addressed to James Reid on January 20, 1807, concerning the estate of Aaron Hart, who died December 28, 1800, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. This document is one of approximately 28 legal papers from the archive of 56 documents relating to the division of the Aaron Hart estate. These papers were found among the papers of Judge James Reid (1769-1848), the Hart family's lawyer.
Legal document granting power of attorney from Morris A. Tynberg to Nathan Zemansky to represent him in a lawsuit against P. Lyons & Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. The document was signed by Joseph B. Nones, Commissioner of South Carolina in New York, on May 17, 1866. It includes a blue 50-cent revenue stamp.
Legal document detailing the sheriff's sale of an amulatto boy for $825 to Franklin J. Moses in Charleston, South Carolina on December 1, 1839. The document originates from Sumter, South Carolina.
Warrant for the arrest of Thomas Meekins and Richard Carter for the theft of "one piece of canvass of the value of six dollars and forty cents the property of ...Nathan Blum." Issued and signed by William Tucker on August 21, 1868, in Washington, D.C.