Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. JAM_1750_02

Witter v Doe

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Norwood and Bonella Witter, and Benjamin, jun., and Hannah Blake v John Doe, on the demise of John Sharpe, William Perrin, and Thomas Vaughan

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [142] p.110–111 (6 Dec. 1750 – 20 Dec. 1752)

 
PC Register Citation  

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.113–114: PC 2/102/113–114

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PC Register Citation  

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.215, 218–233, 260: PC 2/103/215, 218–233, 260

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Colonial Courts

Supreme Court of Judicature – Feb. 1747

Court of Errors – 17 Dec. 1749

Participants

Blake, Benjamin jun., esquire, of Westmoreland parish, Jamaica, appellant (husband of Hannah)

Blake (née Williams), Hannah, appellant (wife of Benjamin, daughter of William Williams)

Cleaver, Samuel

Doe, John, respondent

Gale, Isaac (brother-in-law of William Williams)

Gale, John

Gale, Jonathan

Garbrand, ___

Hamersley, Hugh, of the Inner Temple, London

Hooper, Philip

Knight, James, of Stoke Newington

Knight, John, of Stoke Newington

Knight, Sarah – see Williams, Sarah

Lewis, Barnard

Lynch, Michael

Pennant, Samuel, of London

Perrin, William, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

Poyntzes, ___

Sharpe, John, esquire, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

Vaughan, Thomas, gentleman, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

Williams, Anna, infant, deceased (daughter of William)

Williams, Bonella – see Witter, Bonella

Williams, Hannah – see Blake, Hannah

Williams, John, later deceased (husband of Sarah)

Williams, Lewis

Williams, Mary (widow of William)

Williams (née Knight), Sarah, widow (widow of John)

Williams, William, planter (husband of Mary, father of John, Anna, Bonella [now Bonella Witter], and Hannah [now Hannah Blake], brother-in-law of Isaac Gale)

Witter (née Williams), Bonella, appellant (wife of Norwood, daughter of William Williams)

Witter, Norwood, esquire, of Westmoreland parish, Jamaica, appellant (husband of Bonella)

Wollery, Thomas sen.

Description

Concerning trepass/ejectment, a will, and indentures.

Disposition

Judgment reversed without prejudice.

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

Williams v Witter – Report No. JAM_1746_03 (APC, v.4 [42] p.36)

Doe v Witter, Doe v Blake – Report No. JAM_1764_05 (APC, v.4 [583] p.694–695)

Perrin v Blake, Perrin v Witter – Report No. JAM_1777_05 (APC, v.5 [355] p.455).

“Poyntzes and Garbrand” (see PC 2/103/219) are slave-buyers; the name could indicate a company rather than two individuals.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (John Doe, John Sharpe, and William Perrin v Norwood and Bonella Witter, and Benjamin and Hannah Blake)

Counsel

W. Murray; A. Hume-Campbell

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 21 November 1752; no manuscript notes or underlinings)

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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

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