December 13, 2007

Anniversary of the Death of John Lansing, Jr. -- Former Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature

Yesterday marked the anniversary of John Lansing, Jr.'s mysterious death in 1829.  Among other things, John Lansing, Jr. was a Justice (appointed 1790) and later Chief Justice (1798) of New York's Supreme Court of Judicature -- the predecessor to the New York Court of Appeals (see "Duely and Constantly Kept" as reproduced at the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York").

On the evening of December 12, 1829, John Lansing Jr. left his Manhattan hotel to mail a letter at a New York City dock and was never seen again.

Dec 13, 2007 7:20:01 PM

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