The Huyck Bain Crandell Collection, Document BH012
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1794-11-08 Subpoena, Mrs Christintye Huyck to Appear & Testify in Assault Case
Christina Huyck is subpoenaed to testify in an action involving assault and battery between Jacobus L Van Alen, plaintiff, and John L. Goes, defendant.
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Transcription
To Mrs Christintye Huyck Madam
By Virtue of the People's Writ of Subpoena to you directed and herewith shown unto you, You are personally to be and appear before our Chief Justice or other Justice or Justices of our Supreme Court of Judication at a Circuit Court to be holden in and for the County of Columbia at the Court House for the said County in the Town of Claverack on Monday the Seventeenth day of November at 10 o'clock in the morning to testify the Truth according to your Knowledge in a certain action of Assault and Battery in our said Court now depending undetermined and then and there to be ???d by a Jury of the Country{sic} Between Jacobus L. Van Alen Plaintiff and John L. Goes Defend't on the part of the Plaintiff. And this you are not to omit on pain of One hundred pounds Dated the Eight day of November in the year of our Lord 1794 By the Court Vosburgh Atty
Commentary
Christina Huyck is subpoenaed to testify in an action involving assault and battery between Jacobus L Van Alen, plaintiff, and John L. Goes, defendant.
Notes:
- Christina Huyck subpoenaed — Arent’s wife called to testify as a witness in an assault and battery case before the Columbia County Supreme Court Circuit at Claverack, November 17, 1794.
- Jacobus L. Van Alen vs. John L. Goes — a civil action for assault and battery between two prominent local families. Van Alen and Goes both running as threads through the entire archive — Peter Van Alen was a 1731 patent partner, and the Goes family connected to the Huycks through Maycke Goes Huyck. Now members of these families are in court against each other.
- Christina’s testimony — her being subpoenaed as a witness suggests she had direct knowledge of the assault — either she witnessed it, or she had relevant information about the parties or circumstances. Living at Pomponick she was presumably a neighbor of both families.
- “Vosburgh Atty” — the attorney is a Vosburgh — yet another member of the Vosburgh family that has run through this archive since Peter Vosburgh was named co-executor of Andries’s estate in 1770. Now a Vosburgh is practicing law in Columbia County.
- Columbia County — established in 1786 when it was separated from Albany County, reflecting the post-Revolutionary reorganization of New York State government. The archive has moved from colonial Albany County to the new state of New York’s Columbia County.
- “Pain of One hundred pounds” — the penalty for failing to appear, a standard subpoena formula.
- November 1794 — Arent would be 33, Christina presumably similar in age. They are established members of the Pomponick community, known well enough to be called as witnesses in a neighborhood dispute.
The archive is now firmly in the post-Revolutionary, early American republic period — Supreme Court circuits, Columbia County, state legal proceedings — a world transformed from the Dutch colonial commercial documents where we began in 1679.
— Notes by Claude.ai 4.6 2026-05-08 - jhc
Metadata
Document: BH012
Date: 1794-11-08
Language: English
Type: Legal Document
Subject: Law
Principals: Christintye Huyck, Jacobus L. Van Alen, John L. Goes, Vosburgh, Atty
Places Mentioned: Claverack, Columbia County
— page revised 2026-05-22 - jhc
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