Note 516 — Chapter V

Wimmer’s Appeal, 1 Wharton’s Reports, 102 (1836). The court of the burgomaster and schepens of the city of New York acted as an orphans’ court during the Dutch period. To relieve the court of this work Stuyvesant created a separate court of orphan masters, which ceased to exist when the colony passed into the hands of the English. Scott’s History of the Courts of New York (1909), 40; Records of the Court of New Amsterdam, Vol. II, 341. There is no evidence, however, that this court influenced Penn in establishing orphans’ courts in Pennsylvania.