I want to thank all the kind people who answered my inquiry about William Stryker's book. I now have another problem that I hope someone can help me with. What is the difference between the Court of Oyer and Terminer and the Court of Quarter Sessions? Is one for criminal cases and the other for petty demeanors or something like that? I have found 2 possible ancestors recorded in the Minutes of the Council of Safety which had to do with Loyalists who refused to take the Oath of Abjuration and Allegiance (to the Americans) in the Revolutionary War. The one who refused to take the oath had to appear at the Court of Quarter Sessions and another one (both women) had to appear at the court of Oyer and Terminer but it didn't say what her "crime" was. Was it perhaps more serious than refusing to take an oath. Both courts were in Middlesex Co. by the way. I sure hope someone can answer this. Sandra in Switzerland