The seeming discrepancy between the listing of the colonial courts and the dates of the proceedings given in the APC and those given in Grant’s report (below, Documentation) merits further exploration in the latter.

Fuller names for the appellants are as follows: Anna Eliza Gamon Elletson Brydges, Duchess of Chandos; James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos. For further information see Linda L. Sturtz, “The ‘Dimduke’ and the Duchess of Chandos: Gender and Power in Jamaican Plantation Managment – A Case Study or, A Different Story of ‘A Man [and his wife] from a place called Hope’,” available online.

As noted in the Introduction, many names of enslaved persons appear in the underlying documentation of the PC cases. This one has a particularly full list that appears in PC 2/128/368–369, which we transcribe here preserving the original capitalization and punctuation: “That in August Grand Court 1781, the said Walrond Fearon and Mary his wife also brought an Action in replevin against the Appellants for the following Negro and other Slaves to wit Old Tony My Lord Pera, Boatswain Quamina Oxford Little Wackey Perington Whancka’s Roger Bob Crokatt Emanuel Jessamine Guy Monimia Tony Juba’s Robert Moll’s Will Wiltshire, Primus Jemsay Franky’s Quashee Benebas Cudjoe Phebes Jone Maron’s Cudjoe Cuba’s Harry Billy Thomas Cooper Cuffee Cooper Pompey Catalin’s Ralph Simpey Davey Pshysees Charles Smith Tom Dublin Sambo Will Toby Kingo Doctor Harvey Coachman Roger Philip Charles Marina Black Amba Lynda Lydda Hora Angola’s Sarah Mingos Juba, Coromantine Daphne Frankey Jack’s Amba Dicks Cuba Nanny Tilly Cretia Kate’s Rose Charitys Moll Sappho Roses Charity Old Amber’s Maria Case’s Phyche Juba’s Yabba Judy’s Catalina Franky’s Rose Spike’s Juba Little Medgey Nennios, Barbary Juba’s Polly Catalins Batty Amey Phebe’s Franky Long Phebe’s Cynthia Mary Venus Jenny Physche’s Physche Franky Juno Juba Hope’s Abbah Dolly Esther Cuba’s Bella Hagar Betty Pierce, Little Bess Sally Hitty Molly Nago Chloe My Lords Rose and Franky to which Action in Replevin the Appellants also appeared and pleaded not Guilty –”