Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. STC_1756_00

Brown v Sharpe

St. Christopher 

 

Case Name Long

Jackson Brown v Henry Sharpe, George Maxwell, Henry Lascelles, Lord and Lady Cranstoun, William Cranstoun and Brown Cranstoun, the latter two by Henry Sharpe, as next friend, Anthony and Elizabeth Hodges, Jeremiah Hodges, and Anthony Hodges

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [322] p.344 (13 Aug. 1756 – 8 June 1757)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.16 (1 Jan. 1756 – 31 Dec. 1757) p.274–275, 329, 497–504, 515–516: PC 2/105/274–275, 329, 497–504, 515–516

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 21 Feb. 1756

 

Participants

Brown (Browne), Jackson, esquire, appellant (son of Jeremiah Browne)

 

Browne, Elizabeth – see Hodges, Elizabeth

 

Browne, Jeremiah, deceased (father of Jackson and Elizabeth [now Elizabeth Hodges], uncle of Sarah, grandfather of Frances Payne)

 

Browne, Sarah (niece of Jeremiah Browne)

 

Cranstoun, [James], lord, of Cranstoun [co. Roxburgh], respondent (husband of Lady Cranstoun, father of William and Brown)

 

Cranstoun, [Sophia, née Brown], lady, respondent (wife of Lord Cranstoun, mother of William and Brown)

 

Cranstoun, Brown, esquire, respondent (son of Lord and Lady Cranstoun)

 

Cranstoun, William, esquire, respondent (son of Lord and Lady Cranstoun)

 

Hodges, Anthony (1), respondent (husband of Elizabeth, father of Jeremiah and Anthony [2])

 

Hodges, Anthony (2), respondent (son of Anthony [1] and Elizabeth)

 

Hodges (née Browne), Elizabeth, respondent (wife of Anthony [1], daughter of Jeremiah Browne, mother of Anthony [2] and Jeremiah)

 

Hodges, Jeremiah, respondent (son of Anthony [1] and Elizabeth)

 

Huddlestone, George

 

Lascelles, Henry, respondent

 

Maxwell, George, respondent

 

Payne, Frances (granddaughter of Jeremiah Browne)

 

Sharpe, Henry, respondent (next friend of William and Brown Cranstoun)

 

Thomas, George, governor of the Leeward Islands

 

Description

Land/inheritance.

Disposition

Reversed.

Notes

The appellant’s and respondents’ printed cases are summarized in Caribbeana: miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies, ed. Vere Langford Oliver (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1909–1919), 6:117-118 (view).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Jackson Browne v Henry Sharpe, George and Sophia Maxwell, William and Browne Cranstoun, and Anthony, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, and Anthony Hodges)

Counsel

C. Yorke; C. Pratt

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.152r–154v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 19 May 1757 with lengthy manuscript notes. Extensive additional manuscript notes and underlining.)

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Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1757; no manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Jackson Browne v Henry Sharpe, George and Sophia Maxwell, William and Browne Cranstown, and Anthony, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, and Anthony Hodges)

Counsel

Al. Forrester; K. Evans

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.155r–160v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 19 May 1757. No manuscript notes; minor underlining. Followed by several pages [f157r–160v] of manuscript counsel notes.)

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Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1757; 19 May added by hand; no manuscript notes.)

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

 

Not found

Other Documents

Other DocumentsA will (dated 18 Nov. 1755) of a Jeremiah Browne of St. Christopher, not viewed, but likely the Jeremiah Browne in this appeal, can be found at The National Archives, PROB 11/818/423, last visited 3/1/2017.