Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1750_02

Witter v Doe

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Norwood and Bonella Witter, and Benjamin, jun., and Hannah Blake v John Doe, on the demise of John Sharpe, William Perrin, and Thomas Vaughan

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [142] p.110–111 (6 Dec. 1750 – 20 Dec. 1752)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.113–114: PC 2/102/113–114

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.215, 218–233, 260: PC 2/103/215, 218–233, 260

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Supreme Court of Judicature – Feb. 1747

 
 

Court of Errors – 17 Dec. 1749

 

Participants

Blake, Benjamin, jun., esquire, of Westmoreland parish, Jamaica, appellant (husband of Hannah)

 

Blake (née Williams), Hannah, appellant (wife of Benjamin, daughter of William Williams)

 

Cleaver, Samuel

 

Doe, John, respondent

 

Gale, Isaac (brother-in-law of William Williams)

 

Gale, John

 

Gale, Jonathan

 

Garbrand, ___

 

Hamersley, Hugh, of the Inner Temple, London

 

Hooper, Philip

 

Knight, James, of Stoke Newington

 

Knight, John, of Stoke Newington

 

Knight, Sarah – see Williams, Sarah

 

Lewis, Barnard

 

Lynch, Michael

 

Pennant, Samuel, of London

 

Perrin, William, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

 

Poyntzes, ___

 

Sharpe, John, esquire, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

 

Vaughan, Thomas, gentleman, respondent, deceased (trustee of Sarah Williams)

 

Williams, Anna, infant, deceased (daughter of William)

 

Williams, Bonella – see Witter, Bonella

 

Williams, Hannah – see Blake, Hannah

 

Williams, John, later deceased (husband of Sarah)

 

Williams, Lewis

 

Williams, Mary (widow of William)

 

Williams (née Knight), Sarah, widow (widow of John)

 

Williams, William, planter (husband of Mary, father of John, Anna, Bonella [now Bonella Witter], and Hannah [now Hannah Blake], brother-in-law of Isaac Gale)

 

Witter (née Williams), Bonella, appellant (wife of Norwood, daughter of William Williams)

 

Witter, Norwood, esquire, of Westmoreland parish, Jamaica, appellant (husband of Bonella)

 

Wollery, Thomas, sen.

 

Description

Concerning trepass/ejectment, a will, and indentures.

Disposition

Judgment reversed without prejudice.

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

Williams v Witter – Report No. JAM_1746_03 (APC, v.4 [42] p.36)

Doe v Witter, Doe v Blake – Report No. JAM_1764_05 (APC, v.4 [583] p.694–695)

Perrin v Blake, Perrin v Witter – Report No. JAM_1777_05 (APC, v.5 [355] p.455).

“Poyntzes and Garbrand” (see PC 2/103/219) are slave-buyers; the name could indicate a company rather than two individuals.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (John Doe, John Sharpe, and William Perrin v Norwood and Bonella Witter, and Benjamin and Hannah Blake)

Counsel

W. Murray; A. Hume-Campbell

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 21 November 1752; no manuscript notes or underlinings.)

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

 

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