| Appeals to the Privy Council |
| Report No. 11_1736_00 |
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Rhode Island |
| Case Name Short |
MacSparran v Hassard |
| Case Name Long |
James MacSparran v Robert Hassard |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.518 – 24 November 1736 – entry 1 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.24–25: PC 2/94/24–25 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.518 – 26 January 1737 – entry 2 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.91, 95–96: PC 2/94/91, 95–96 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.518 – 21 February 1737 – entry 3 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.128: PC 2/94/128 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.519–529 – 28 February 1738 – entry 4 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.433–445: PC 2/94/433–445 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.529 – 8 March 1736 recte 1738 – entry 5 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.476: PC 2/94/476 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.529 – 10 July 1740 – entry 6 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.7 (1 April 1740 – 7 August 1741) p.160: PC 2/96/160 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.530 – 28 April 1741 – entry 7 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.7 (1 April 1740 – 7 August 1741) p.463: PC 2/96/463 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [390] p.530 – 7 May 1752 – entry 8 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.525, 536: PC 2/102/525, 536 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 December 1753) p.46, 51–54, 70: PC 2/103/46, 51–54, 70 |
Colonial Courts |
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Inferior Court of Common Pleas – 6 January 1735 Superior Court of Judicature – 30 March 1736 Superior Court – 2 April 1739 |
Participants |
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Bishop of London Brenton, Jahleel, esquire Bull, Ivich Bundy, James Cheesbrough, David, gentleman, of Newport Church, Benjamin, gentleman, of Newport Coggeshall, Peter, gentleman, of Newport Congdon, William Gardner, Henry the Elder Gardner, Ephriam, esquire Hassard (Hazard), Robert, gentleman (tenant of Joseph Torrey) Holme, James of South Kingstown MacSparran, James, incumbent minister of St. Paul’s in the Pettiquamscot (Pettiquamscut, Petequamscut) Purchase and in King’s County Mumford, George Mumford, William, gentleman, of South Kingstown Nyles, Rev. Samuel, minister Potter, Thomas (tenant of James MacSparran) Sandford, Thomas, merchant, of London Smith, John, surveyor Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Torrey, Joseph, minister Townshend, Nathaniel, jun., gentleman, of Newport Wilber (Wilbor), Samuel (partner in the Pettiquamscot Purchase, also spelled Pettiquamscut, Petequamscut ) |
Description |
Land (“writ of ejectment,” according to the APC; “Action of Trespass and Ejectment,” according to the Privy Council register) |
Disposition |
Affirmed |
Notes |
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Related to other Privy Council appeals: MacSparran v Mumford – Report No. 11_1725_00 (APC, v.3 [85] p.118) Torrey v Mumford – Report No. 11_1733_00 (APC, v.3 [293] p.402) All of these Privy Council appeals concern a dispute about glebe land and have overlapping parties. There is an extensive discussion of this dispute in Bilder, Salamanders and Sons of God, ch. 6. Multiple spellings are given for the surname of the Presbyterian minister – Miles in Torrey v Mumford; Nyles in MacSparran v Hassard; Myles in Chalmers, Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, 1:9. A related colonial case, Torrey v Gardner, was heard in the Inferior Court on 24 June 1735 and in the Superior Court on 2 September 1735, but does not seem to have been appealed. On the original action involved here, see Additional Research. |
References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations |
Table of Cases (McSparran v Hazzard) |
Additional Sources |
The entire dispute produced something of a pamphlet war: A brief representation of the case depending between the Rev. Dr. Mc’Sparran, plaintiff, and the Rev. Mr. Torrey, defendant, relating to the ministry land at Narraganset [Torrey, Brief Representation]; A brief representation of the case depending between the Rev. Dr. Mc’Sparran, plaintiff, and the Rev. Mr. Torrey, defendant, relating to the ministerial land in Narraganset in a letter from a gentleman at Newport to his friend in Boston [A.B., Brief Representation]; An answer to a printed letter said to be wrote from a gentleman in Newport to his friend in Boston Aug. 27; pretending to find fault with a brief representation of the case between Dr. McSparran plaintiff and Mr. Torrey defendant, relating to the ministry land in South Kingstown, Narragansett, which was dated July 1739 [Prince, Brief Representation]. |
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DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
| Appellant’s case | Case of the appellant (MacSparran) |
| Counsel | [Signed] W. Murray |
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f. 1–2 |
| Library | Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection (Minor underlining on first page) |
| Respondent’s case | Case of the respondent (Hassard) |
| Counsel | [Signed] D. Ryder; A. Hume-Campbell |
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.3–6 (Includes manuscript notes) |
| Library | Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection (Includes manuscript notes) |
Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
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