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Moses Sherburne, Associate Justice, Territorial Supreme Court, 1853-1857

Resources

Testimony: Remembering Minnesota's Supreme Court Justices by Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society
Call Number: Main Collection KF372 .T47 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The Law, Courts, and Lawyers in the Frontier Days of Minnesota: An Informal Legal History of the Years 1835 to 1865 by Robert J. Sheran & Timothy J. Baland
Call Number: Special Collection KFM 5908 .S53 1976
Publication Date: 1976
History of the bench and bar of Minnesota by Hiram Stevens
Call Number: Special Collections Room KFM5478 .H5
Publication Date: 1904
See Chapter 10
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society: Minnesota biographies, 1655-1912 by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap
Call Number: Special Collections Room F 601 .M66 vol. 14
Publication Date: 1912
Link goes to page with Moses Sherbourne's biography
Territorial Bench of Minnesota, Parts I, II, & III by Isaac Atwater
Call Number: Main KF354.M6 T47 1888
Publication Date: 1887
Published in Magazine of Western History, Volume 7

Biography of Moses Sherburne from Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society Volume X part 2

Documents Re: Associate Justices Moses Sherburne and Rensselaer R. Nelson - Minn. Legal History Project
Moses Sherburne Papers at the Minn. Historical Society
History of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 4 Green Bag 166 (1892)
Minnesota Constitutional Convention,1857 - MNopedia
More information about the Constitutional Convention of 1857. This site includes a chronology of the path to statehood.
John S. Sherburne Papers
Finding Aid for papers of the descendants of Moses Sherburne.
Moses Sherburne - Library of Congress
Biography of Moses Sherburne presented at the meeting of the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Supplement, 17 MEDICO-LEGAL J. 1 (1899).

Publications

The public statutes of the state of Minnesota, 1849-1858 by Moses Sherburne
Call Number: MN Coll Reference KFM 5430 .A2 1859
Publication Date: 1859