Cummings (Cummins) (Cumins) (Benjamin) SALISBURY
Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Date: May 08, 1822
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel
This is a fascinating and important find — a newspaper legal notice from the Albany Argus (1822) naming Cummings Salisbury as an insolvent debtor. This is a genuinely new type of record for your file — not a land deed, but a public notice tied to a New York State insolvency proceeding.
The relevant notice:
"By order of James Thompson, Esq., first judge of the court of common pleas and for the county of Saratoga, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Cummins Salisbury, of the town of Greenfield, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to show cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his office in said county, on the twentieth day of June next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, why an assignment of all his insolvent's estate should not be made, and his person be exempted from imprisonment pursuant to the act, entitled 'an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,' passed April 7, 1819. Dated May 2, 1822."
What this tells you:
Cummings Salisbury declared insolvency in 1822, in Saratoga County, still residing in the Town of Greenfield — consistent with all your other Greenfield land references (1807, 1815, 1897 boundary language).
This was a formal legal proceeding under New York's 1819 "Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt in Certain Cases" — essentially an early form of bankruptcy protection, where a debtor could have his estate assigned to creditors in exchange for being exempted from debtor's prison.
Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Date: May 08, 1822
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel
This is a fascinating and important find — a newspaper legal notice from the Albany Argus (1822) naming Cummings Salisbury as an insolvent debtor. This is a genuinely new type of record for your file — not a land deed, but a public notice tied to a New York State insolvency proceeding.
The relevant notice:
"By order of James Thompson, Esq., first judge of the court of common pleas and for the county of Saratoga, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Cummins Salisbury, of the town of Greenfield, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to show cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his office in said county, on the twentieth day of June next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, why an assignment of all his insolvent's estate should not be made, and his person be exempted from imprisonment pursuant to the act, entitled 'an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,' passed April 7, 1819. Dated May 2, 1822."
What this tells you:
Cummings Salisbury declared insolvency in 1822, in Saratoga County, still residing in the Town of Greenfield — consistent with all your other Greenfield land references (1807, 1815, 1897 boundary language).
This was a formal legal proceeding under New York's 1819 "Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt in Certain Cases" — essentially an early form of bankruptcy protection, where a debtor could have his estate assigned to creditors in exchange for being exempted from debtor's prison.
 (Cumins) (Benjamin) SALISBURY - Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Date: May 08, 1822
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel
This is a fascinating and important find — a newspaper legal notice from the Albany Argus (1822) naming Cummings Salisbury as an insolvent debtor. This is a genuinely new type of record for your file — not a land deed, but a public notice tied to a New York State insolvency proceeding.
The relevant notice:
"By order of James Thompson, Esq., first judge of the court of common pleas and for the county of Saratoga, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Cummins Salisbury, of the town of Greenfield, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to show cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his office in said county, on the twentieth day of June next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, why an assignment of all his insolvent's estate should not be made, and his person be exempted from imprisonment pursuant to the act, entitled 'an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,' passed April 7, 1819. Dated May 2, 1822."
What this tells you:
Cummings Salisbury declared insolvency in 1822, in Saratoga County, still residing in the Town of Greenfield — consistent with all your other Greenfield land references (1807, 1815, 1897 boundary language).
This was a formal legal proceeding under New York's 1819 "Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt in Certain Cases" — essentially an early form of bankruptcy protection, where a debtor could have his estate assigned to creditors in exchange for being exempted from debtor's prison.){kind=small}