John Noble

John Noble, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court. Here are record books, minute books, and file papers covering, with varying degrees of completeness, the entire period from 1629 to 1800. Over documents have beeb serially numbered and neatly tipped into bound folio volumes (1289 of them). Finding, preserving, and organizing this unique documentary sourse was largely the work of one man John Noble, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1875 to 1908. The entire collection has been titled "Suffolk Files" in this edition.