Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. BAR_1726_01

Moore v Ford

Barbados 

 

Case Name Long

William Moore v Francis Ford and George Barry

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [95] p.124–125 (18 April 1726 – 8 Feb. 1727)

 
  PC Register Citation

George I v.5 (Sept. 1724 – May 1727) p.212, 304, 315: PC 2/89/212, 304, 315

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 19 Nov. 1725

 

Participants

Barry, George, respondent

 

Ford, Francis, respondent

 

Matson, Benjamin, deceased (husband of Margaret [now Margaret Moore])

 

Matson, Margaret – see Moore, Margaret

 

Moore (formerly Matson), Margaret, deceased (wife of William, widow and executrix of Benjamin Matson)

 

Moore, William, appellant (husband and administrator of Margaret)

 

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Decree reversed.

Notes

The appellant’s and respondents’ printed cases are summarized, with additional footnotes about some of the parties, in Caribbeana: miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies, ed. Vere Langford Oliver (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1909–1919), 6:64 (view).

 

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Moore v Ford)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (William Moore v Francis Ford and George Barry)

Counsel

?Busby

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.19r–21v (Manuscript. Styled: “William Moore Esq admr. of his late Wife Margaret deceased formerly called Margaret Matson Widow and Relict and also Exec. of Benja. Matson Esq deceased. Appellant } [v]. Francis Ford & George Barry Esq. Admr. de bonis non etc of said Benja. Matson Esq. deceased. Respondent } On a Decree of Dismission in the Court of Chancery in Barbados. For the Respondents.” Dated on dorse 4 July 1726, with notes ?signed by one Busby, with other indications of authorship that we cannot read. This is the only case that we have found where the ‘printed case’ survives only in manuscript. It is followed by a manuscript copy of the petition of the appellant, fol 22r–23r.)

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

 
TNA Document Committee report – 20 Jan. 1727 (PC 1/48/23) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [364] p.172.

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Other Documents

Other DocumentsPetition of the appellant 
Library British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.22r–23v

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