# Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court *Court of the Minnesota Territory* The Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court enters this record through one at-issue item, AI-Sherburne-081. The item concerns one of the court's justices, [[Moses Sherburne]], for whom Sherburne County is named.[^1] The item records Sherburne as a Maine Democrat appointed to the court by [[Franklin Pierce]] in 1853.[^1] According to the item, he served three years and wrote seventeen majority opinions. It also records that he sat in the 1857 Constitutional Convention, served on the 1858 commission revising [[Minnesota]]'s General Laws, and then went into real estate.[^1] The pack carries no other member of the court, no dates for the court's creation or end, and none of its opinions. ## Who Moses Sherburne is the only justice the pack names. The at-issue item records that Franklin Pierce appointed him to the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court in 1853 and describes him as a Maine Democrat.[^1] These statements belong to the item. Its listed sources, en.wikipedia.org and mncourts.libguides.com, are not carried in this pack.[^1] ## When The item gives the following dates:[^1] - 1853: Sherburne's appointment. - About 1856: the end of the three years of service the item records. - 1857: the Constitutional Convention in which he sat. - 1858: the commission revising the General Laws on which he served. ## Where Sherburne County bears Sherburne's name.[^1] The item flags a conflict over his place of death. The Law Library source gives Orono, Sherburne County. Wikipedia gives St. Paul. The pack does not resolve the conflict.[^1] ## How many The item records seventeen majority opinions by Sherburne across his three years on the court.[^1] The pack gives no count for the court as a whole. ## In the at-issue record - **AI-Sherburne-081** (package: Sherburne; section *III. THE TAX BASE BEING RETIRED (61–85)*), ranked 81. The item records the following sequence for Sherburne:[^1] - appointment to the court by Pierce in 1853; - three years of service; - seventeen majority opinions; - a seat in the 1857 Constitutional Convention; - service on the 1858 commission revising the General Laws; - subsequent work in real estate. - The item is anchored to a whitehouse.gov presidential action posted under 2026/05. The pack contains no text of that action. The action is not shown to establish any fact about the court or about Sherburne.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *AI-Sherburne-081* (Sherburne package; year 1853). The item records Sherburne's 1853 appointment by Pierce, his three-year service, his seventeen majority opinions, the 1857 Convention, the 1858 commission, his later real-estate activity, and the place-of-death conflict between sources. The URL below is the item's anchor, a White House presidential action (2026/05). That action does not itself establish these biographical facts. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/05/restoring-integrity-to-americas-financial-system/