Alexander Hamilton

4 1/2 pages (13 x 8 in.; 330 x 203 mm) hinged together, Supreme Court [New York], n.d. [after 22 October 1779 but before 3 September 1783], in Hamilton's hand, being a special verdict of the Court in the case of James Leonard/James Jackson v. Anthony Post; some browning and dampstaining at crease folds, folded into quarters, exposed quarter with docket browned.

4 1/2 pages (13 x 8 in.; 330 x 203 mm) hinged together, Supreme Court [New York], n.d. [after 22 October 1779 but before 3 September 1783], in Hamilton's hand, being a special verdict of the Court in the case of James Leonard/James Jackson v. Anthony Post; some browning and dampstaining at crease folds, folded into quarters, exposed quarter with docket browned.
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During the American Revolution, many states passed laws allowing them to seize the property of known Loyalists. So-called “confiscation laws” effectively criminalized dissent against the American Revolution. New York’s most aggressive confiscation law was passed in October of 1779, entitled “An Act for the Forfeiture and Sale of the Estates of Persons who have adhered to the Enemies of this State, and for declaring the Sovereignty of the People of this State, in respect to all Property within the same,” though it is commonly called the Forfeiture Act (New York Laws, 3rd session, Ch. 25). New Yorkers who remained loyal to Great Britain their right to property and were banished from the state. It also empowered the state to seize and sell their forfeited property. Such is the case with the present verdict.