Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 11_1745_02

Potter v Freeborn

Rhode Island 

Case Name Short

Potter v Freeborn

Case Name Long

John Potter v Joseph and Dorcas Freeborn

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [16] p.12 – 7 November 1745 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.10 (1 March 1745 – 31 July 1746) p.242: PC 2/99/242

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APC Citation 

v.4 [16] p.12–13 – 30 June 1752 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.11 (1 August 1746 – 30 April 1748) p.190: PC 2/100/190

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PC Register Citation 

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 December 1753) p.155: PC 2/103/155

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APC Citation 

v.4 [16] p.13 – 6 August 1752 – entry 3

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 December 1753) p.158–160, 177–178: PC 2/103/158–160, 177–178

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court – 21 February 1744

Superior Court – 27 March 1744

Participants

Baker, Fotherley (solicitor for Dorcas Freeborn)

Freeborn, Dorcas (wife, later widow, of Joseph Freeborn)

Freeborn, Joseph (husband, later deceased, of Dorcas Freeborn)

Paris, Mr. (solicitor for John Potter)

Potter, John, yeoman, of South Kingstown in King’s County (executor of Samuel Potter)

Potter, Samuel

Description

Action of debt arising, according to Bilder, Salamanders and Sons of God, p.304, from an inheritance dispute

Disposition

Affirmed

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

Table of Cases (Potter v Freeborn)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (Potter)

Note

Not found

 
Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (Freeborn)

Counsel

[Signed] Al. Forrester

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection (2 copies of the respondent’s case)

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

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