Note 15 — Chapter XIV · WHIG FAILURE RESTORES TAMMANY TO POWER 1838-1840
Reading edition
Court Minutes, New York Common Pleas, record of February 19 and 20, 1839. (These records are neither paged nor indexed.) The Common Pleas of this time was popularly known as the Mayor’s Court; and the Judges were the Mayor, Recorder and certain Aldermen. The later Court of Common Pleas was not established until 1856.