HON 127: Ways of Discovering/Stories of the North Country  

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Instructor: Dr. Mark Richard

Clinton County Courthouse, Government Center, downtown Plattsburgh 

County Clerk’s Office, first floor

Contact: (518) 565-4700

Open Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Civil case records

Deeds

Mortgages

Book of Aliens Admitted with Declarations of Intent

Clerk of Courts Office, third floor

Contact: (518) 565-4715

Current files go back to the 1960s; before that, can find information written in the minute books that are in the County Clerk’s Office—can look up names there

Older records are with the County Historian who has an office in the building

Criminal records from 1989 on are computerized

Surrogate’s Court, third floor

Contact: (518) 565-4630 [call in advance]

Probate records, beginning in 1700s

Clinton County Historian’s Office, first floor

Contact person: Anastasia Pratt (518) 565-4749

Open Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Certificates of Conviction, 1893-1906

County Court Judgments, beginning 1790

Coroner’s Inquests, 1790-1876

County jail intake records, 1830s-1960s

Correspondence of Judge Healy

Some Poorhouse ledgers

Some diaries and scrapbooks

Information provided by Dr. Mark Richard