Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1751_05

Patten v Nunes

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

John Patten (revived by Richard Beckford, Forster March, Stephen Richard Redwood and Francis Hamilton) v Esther Nunes and later also William Aikenhead

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [154] p.131 (26 Sept. 1751 – 6 Aug. 1754)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.305–306: PC 2/102/305–306

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.357–358, 365–366: PC 2/103/357–358, 365–366

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.15 (1 Jan. 1754 – 31 Dec. 1755) p.41–42, 45, 182–199, 219: PC 2/104/41–42, 45, 182–199, 219

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 19 May and 25 Aug. 1750

 

Participants

Aikenhead, William, esquire, respondent

 

Beckford, Richard, esquire, appellant (executor of John Patten)

 

Bravo, Benjamin

 

Dawkins, Henry

 

Gordon, Samuel

 

Hamilton, Francis, merchant, appellant (executor of John Patten)

 

Kelly, Charles (husband of Sarah)

 

Kelly, Dennis

 

Kelly, Henry

 

Kelly, John, of St. Catherine parish, Jamaica (mortgagee of John Patten ?and ___ Risbee)

 

Kelly, Sarah (wife of Charles)

 

March, Forster, esquire, appellant (executor of John Patten)

 

Nunes (Nunez), Esther, respondent

 

Nunes (Nunez), Jacob, deceased

 

Patten, John, merchant, of St. Catherine parish, Jamaica, appellant, later deceased (mortgagor of John Kelly)

 

Price, Charles

 

Redwood, Stephen Richard, merchant, appellant (executor of John Patten)

 

Risbee, ___

 

Thomas, Walter

 

Whitehorne, Samuel (husband of Sarah)

 

Whitehorne, Sarah (wife of Samuel)

 

Description

Concerning debt/mortgage.

Disposition

Decree affirmed with variations.

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

Table of Cases (Beckford v Nunez and Aikenhead)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Richard Beckford, Forster March, Stephen Richard Redwood, and Francis Hamilton v Esther Nunes and William Aikenhead)

Counsel

Al. Forrester; K. Evans

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Manuscript date on dorse 18 July 1754. Library markings on page 2; no other manuscript notes or underlining.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (William Aikenhead, styled as ‘By Revivor’)
Case of the respondent (Esther Nunez, styled as ‘By Revivor’)

Counsel

W. Murray; R. Harley (bis)

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (The full style of the case is given at the top, but only Aikenhead’s name is mentioned as the respondent whose printed case this is. Printed date on dorse 1754; no manuscript notes.)

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Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (The full style of the case is given at the top, but only Nunez’s name is mentioned as the respondent whose printed case this is. Printed date on dorse 1754; no manuscript notes.)

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

 

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