Daniel Horsmanden - Bibliography

Jurist, born in Purleigh, Essex, SE England, UK. Admitted to the Middle Temple in London (1724), he had emigrated to New York by 1731. He used contacts from England to obtain a seat on the New York Supreme Court. Known as a ‘political jurist’, he lost all his offices in a shift of political fortune in 1747. He recovered lost ground, however, and returned to the New York Supreme Court (1753), becoming its chief justice (1763), though in his later years illness prevented him from carrying out his duties.

died in Flatbush, New York, 28 September 1778)

He was one of the judges that tried the supposed conspirators in the Great Negro Plot of 1741.

He was called to the city council of New York, 23 May 1733, and was afterward recorder and chief justice from March, 1763, and also president of the council.

In 1776, along with Oliver De Lancey and about one thousand other residents of the city and county of New York, he signed an address to Lord Howe.

Bibliography

The New York conspiracy trials of 1741 : Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the proceedings with related documents ISBN 0-312-40216-3 The trial of John Ury for being an ecclesiastical person, made by authority pretended from the See of Rome, and coming into and abiding in the province of New York, and with being one of the conspirators in the Negro plot to burn the city of New York, 1741 The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot:: with the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New-York in the Years 1741-2: Together with Several Interesting Tables Containing the Names of the White and Black Persons Arrested on Account of the Conspiracy, the Times of Their Trials, Their Sentences, Their Executions by Burning and Hanging, Names of Those Transported, and Those Discharged: With a Variety of Other Useful and Highly Interesting Matter. (1741-2;