Earlier this year, author and state archivist Jim Folts was conducting research for a new edition of a book on the history of New York’s State Supreme Court and decided to turn his sights on a box containing writs of habeas corpus from the 1820s.
“I was looking for something that was compact in size, that told a little story,” Folts, the head of researcher services for the New York State Archives, told the Law Journal. “And I noticed a woman’s name—Isabella Van Wagenen. That rang a bell.”
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