Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1769_07

Swete v Beach

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Esther Swete, Francis Baxter, Charles Gardiner, and Robert Richards v Thomas and Helen Beach, and Janet Sadler

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [132] p.217 (29 Nov. 1769 – 19 July 1771)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.7 (May 1769 – Dec. 1770) p.155–156, 259–260: PC 2/114/155–156, 259–260

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.8 (Jan. 1771 – Dec. 1771) p.304–314, 340–341: PC 2/115/304–314, 340–341

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancellor – 18 Feb. 1769

 

Participants

Baxter, Francis, appellant (executor of Mary Hynes [2])

 

Beach (née Hynes), Helen, respondent (wife of Thomas, daughter of Janet Hynes)

 

Beach, Thomas, respondent (husband of Helen)

 

Beckford, Anne

 

Beckford, William (mortgagee of Mary Hynes [2])

 

Bennett, Bridget

 

Bennett, George

 

Brayne, Charles (father of Mary [now Mary Hynes [1]])

 

Brayne, Mary – see Hynes, Mary (1)

 

Dawkins, Henry

 

Elletson (née Hynes), Elizabeth, deceased (daughter of Janet Hynes)

 

Gardiner, Charles, appellant (executor of Mary Hynes [2])

 

Guthrie, Elizabeth

 

Guthrie, Helen

 

Guthrie, James (father of Janet [now Janet Hynes])

 

Guthrie, Janet – see Sadler, Janet

 

Guthrie, John

 

Guthrie, Mary

 

Hall, Mary (wife of William)

 

Hall, William (husband of Mary)

 

Hayman, William

 

Hynes, Elizabeth, deceased – see Elletson, Elizabeth

 

Hynes, Helen – see Beach, Helen

 

Hynes, Janet – see Sadler, Janet

 

Hynes, John, deceased (husband of Janet, former husband of Mary [1], father of Mary [2])

 

Hynes (née Brayne), Mary (1), presumed deceased (wife of John, daughter of Charles Brayne)

 

Hynes, Mary (2), deceased (daughter of John, mortgagor of Peter Beckford, residuary devisor and legator of Esther Swete)

 

Pratter, Edward

 

Richards, Robert, of Kingston, appellant (administrator of Mary Hynes [2])

 

Sadler (née Guthrie, formerly Hynes), Janet, respondent (widow of John Hynes, daughter of James Guthrie, mother of Elizabeth Elletson and Helen Beach)

 

Swete, Esther, widow, appellant (residuary devisee and legatee of Mary Hynes [2])

 

Trelawny, Sir William, governor (cousin of Edward)

 

Turner, [Samuel], alderman of London

 

West, John

 

Description

Land/inheritance.

Disposition

Order reversed with costs.

Notes

See the Introduction on Montpelier Estate in the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery for reference to Janet Sadler.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

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

 
TNA Document Committee report – 9 July 1771 (PC 1/60/10) view_Document
Catalogued as

Jamaica, West Indies: Report of committee on appeal Swete v Beach

 
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Catalogued by The National Archives at Kew.