Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. STC_1732_00

Codrington v Markham

Markham v Codrington

St. Christopher 

 

Case Name Long

Sir William Codrington v Benjamin and Ann Markham

 
Case Name Long

Benjamin and Ann Markham v Sir William Codrington

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [259] p.357–359 (19 Jan. 1732 – 11 April 1734)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.554: PC 2/91/554

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.3 (21 July 1732 – 18 July 1734) p.8, 87, 93–95, 96, 162, 391, 420–423, 454: PC 2/92/8, 87, 93–95, 96, 162, 391, 420–423, 454

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 4 Dec. 1729, 7 Dec. 1730, and 13 Feb. 1731

 

Participants

___, Crook, slave (mother of Jack-Ham and Peroe)

 

___, Jack-Ham, slave (son of Crook)

 

___, Peroe, slave (son of Crook)

 

Codrington, Christopher, sen., deceased

 

Codrington, Sir William, of Dodington, Gloucestershire, appellant/respondent

 

Elrington, Col. Roger

 

Markham, Ann, respondent/appellant (wife of Benjamin, heir of Roger Elrington)

 

Markham, Benjamin, respondent/appellant (husband of Ann, heir of Roger Elrington)

 

St. Alban, Monsieur ___, subject of France

 

Description

Concerning the right to “a Negroe woman called Crook and her two sons . . . .”

Disposition

Reversed with further proceedings possible in Chancery in St. Christopher.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

 

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