Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 05_1755_00

Bannister v Cunningham

Massachusetts 

Case Name Short

Bannister v Cunningham

Case Name Long

John Bannister and Frances Bowen v Nathaniel Cunningham

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [261] p.285 – 6 February 1755 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.15 (1 January 1754 – 31 December 1755) p.323: PC 2/104/323

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APC Citation 

v.4 [261] p.285 – 24 June 1755 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.15 (1 January 1754 – 31 December 1755) p.439–440, 455: PC 2/104/439–440, 455

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Colonial Courts

Superior Court – Boston – 19 February 1754

Participants

Bannister, John, merchant, of Newport in Rhode Island (brother of Frances Bowen and administrator of his deceased brother Samuel Bannister)

Bannister, Samuel, merchant, of Stonington, New London in Connecticut (deceased brother of John Bannister and Frances Bowen)

Bowen, Frances (sister of John and Samuel Bannister and widow of William Bowen of Boston)

Bowen, William, gentleman, of Boston (deceased husband of Frances Bowen)

Cunningham, Nathaniel

Description

Land (action of ejectment) in Boston

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Notes

On the action of ejectment involved here, see Additional Research.

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

Table of Cases (Bannister v Cunningham)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

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Other Documents

Other Documents

See the extensive report on the colonial court proceedings in the parallel case of Banister v Henderson in Quincy, Massachusetts Reports 1761–1772, p. 119–159, with references to this case.

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