Abstract

Court records represent a relatively unknown source of reference material for the writing of American Biographical history. Using as a model the "Suffolk Files," a collection of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Massachusetts judicial archives, Mr. Brink suggests how court records can provide scholars with a wealth of source material for the biographies of not only prominent lawyers and judges but also other figures in two-hundred years of life in America.

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