General Court of Trials – Newport – last Tuesday in March 1724

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, but see Notes below.

Dismissed for non-prosecution

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

Table of Cases (McSparran v Mumford)

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].

See the detailed index in Manross, Fulham Papers. He summarizes enlightening correspondence and documentation about this case, which is reproduced on Reel 5 of Lambeth Palace Library, Fulham Papers. Of special note is “Dr. MacSparran’s narrative of the lawsuit concerning the glebe land at Narragansett in New England” in manuscript.