Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1767_04

Woollery v Bernard

Lousada v Woollery

Dunn v Woollery

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Edward Woollery, William Woollery, John Woollery, and Robert Dunstan Woollery v David and Elizabeth Bernard (revived with Charles Bernard)

 
Case Name Long

Aaron Baruch Lousada (revived with Rachel Baruch Lousada, Benjamin Dias Fernandes, and Jacob Feurtado) v Edward Woollery, William Woollery, John Woollery, and Robert Dunstan Woollery

 
Case Name Long

James Dunn v Edward Woollery, William Woollery, and Robert Dunstan Woollery

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [49] p.118 (6 Nov. 1767 – 9 Feb. 1770)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.5 (Aug. 1766 – Jan. 1768) p.507: PC 2/112/507

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.6 (Jan. 1768 – April 1769) p.63–64, 76, 105–106, 162–163, 228, 482–484: PC 2/113/63–64, 76, 105–106, 162–163, 228, 482–484

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.7 (May 1769 – Dec. 1770) p.220–222, 227–228: PC 2/114/220–222, 227–228

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancellor – 23 Jan. 1767 (Woollery v Lousada)

 
 

Chancellor – 4 July 1767 (Lousada v Woollery) (Dunn v Woollery)

 

Participants

Bernard, Charles, respondent (executor of David)

 

Bernard, David, respondent, later deceased (husband of Elizabeth)

 

Bernard, Elizabeth, respondent (wife/widow of David)

 

Dias Fernandes, Benjamin, merchant, appellant (executor of Aaron Baruch Lousada)

 

Dunn, James, appellant (executor of John Woollery [1])

 

Feurtado, Jacob, merchant, appellant (executor of Aaron Baruch Lousada)

 

Goostrey, Thomas, of Sherrard Street near Golden Square (attorney for David and Elizabeth Bernard)

 

Lousada, Aaron Baruch, appellant, later deceased (husband of Rachel, executor of John Woollery)

 

Lousada, Rachel Baruch, appellant (widow and executrix of Aaron)

 

Woollery (Woolery), Edward, appellant/respondent (son of John [1], brother of William)

 

Woollery (Woolery), John (1), deceased (father of Edward and William)

 

Woollery (Woolery), John (2), appellant/respondent

 

Woollery (Woolery), Robert Dunstan, appellant/respondent

 

Woollery (Woolery), William, appellant/respondent (son of John [1], brother of Edward)

 

Description

Concerning a will.

Disposition

First decree dismissed as it relates to Lousada; all subsequent appeals dismissed with varying costs.

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

Table of Cases (Woollery v Lousada)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Aaron Baruch Lousada and James Dunn v Edward and William Woolery, Robert Dunstan, and John Woolery)

Counsel

Fl. Norton [crossed out]; Al. Forrester

 
Library

Columbia University. Diamond Law Library: (William Samuel Johnson Collection) Treasure – Johnson 1770m and Microfilm – AA70 (Printed date on dorse 1769 with manuscript note: “Judgt. affirmed.” One other lengthy manuscript note.)

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

 
TNA Document Committee report (Lousada v Woollery and Dunn v Woollery) – 30 Jan. 1770 (PC 1/54/65) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [828] p.473.

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