Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1744_04

Hamilton v Richardson

Richardson v Hamilton

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Robert Hamilton, and Jane, Frances, Margaret, and Eleanor Hamilton v Abraham Richardson

 
Case Name Long

Abraham Richardson v Robert Hamilton, and Jane, Frances, Margaret, and Eleanor Hamilton

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [594] p.781–782 (9 May 1744 – 16 March 1749)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.9 (1 Oct. 1743 – 27 Feb. 1745) p.316–317: PC 2/98/316–317

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.12 (1 May 1748 – 29 March 1750) p.168–180, 217: PC 2/101/168–180, 217

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 28 June and 23 Dec. 1742

 

Participants

Garth, James, deceased (husband of Jane [now Jane Hamilton [1]])

 

Garth, Jane – see Hamilton, Jane (1)

 

Hamilton, Eleanor, infant, appellant/respondent (daughter of Robert and Jane [1])

 

Hamilton, Frances, infant, appellant/respondent (daughter of Robert and Jane [1])

 

Hamilton (née Mitchell, formerly Garth; Miller), Jane (1), deceased (wife of Robert, widow of Pauncefort Miller and James Garth, daughter of Thomas [1] and Frances Mitchell, mother of Jane [2], Frances, Margaret, and Eleanor)

 

Hamilton, Jane (2), infant, appellant/respondent (daughter of Robert and Jane [1])

 

Hamilton, Margaret, infant, appellant/respondent (daughter of Robert and Jane [1])

 

Hamilton, Robert, esquire, formerly of Jamaica, now resident in Great Britain, appellant/respondent (husband of Jane [1], father and guardian of Jane [2], Frances, Margaret, and Eleanor)

 

Miller, Jane – see Hamilton, Jane (1)

 

Miller, Pauncefort, deceased (husband of Jane [now Jane Hamilton [1]])

 

Mitchell, Dorothy (widow of Thomas [2])

 

Mitchell (née Stanton, formerly Richardson), Frances (wife/widow of Thomas, widow of Nicholas Richardson [1], mother and guardian of Nicholas Richardson [2], daughter of Edward Stanton, lessor of Abraham Richardson [2])

 

Mitchell, Jane – see Hamilton, Jane (1)

 

Mitchell, Thomas (1), deceased (husband of Frances, father of Thomas [2] and Jane [now Jane Hamilton [1]])

 

Mitchell, Thomas (2), jun., deceased (husband of Dorothy, son of Thomas [1])

 

Richardson, Abraham (1), sen., deceased (father of Abraham [2], uncle and heir of Nicholas [2], lessee of Frances Mitchell)

 

Richardson, Abraham (2), esquire, formerly of the island of Jersey, now of St. Catherine parish, Jamaica, respondent/appellant (son of Abraham [1])

 

Richardson, Clement (uncle of Nicholas [1])

 

Richardson, Frances – see Mitchell, Frances

 

Richardson, Nicholas (1), deceased (husband of Frances [now Frances Mitchell], nephew of Clement, father of Nicholas [2])

 

Richardson, Nicholas (2), infant, deceased (son of Nicholas [1] and Frances [now Frances Mitchell], grandson of Edward)

 

Stanton, Edward (husband of Priscilla, father of Frances [now Frances Mitchell], grandfather and guardian of Nicholas Richardson [2])

 

Stanton, Frances – see Mitchell, Frances

 

Stanton, Priscilla (wife of Edward)

 

Description

Land/inheritance.

Disposition

Decree reversed; counter-appeal dismissed for non-prosecution.

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

Brown v Hyde, Hyde v Brown – Report No. JAM_1742_03 (APC, v.3 [547] p.727–728)

Richardson v Hyde – Report No. JAM_1744_05 (APC, v.3 [603] p.798)

Hyde v Greenlees – Report No. JAM_1754_01 (APC, v.4 [232] p.243–244).

 

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

Table of Cases (Hamilton v Richardson)


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

 

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