Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 06_1762_00

Rolfe v Proprietors of Bow

New Hampshire 

 

Case Name Short

Rolfe v Proprietors of Bow

 
Case Name Long

Benjamin Rolfe, Daniel Carter, Timothy Simons, John Evans, John Chandler, Abraham Colby and Abraham Kimball v Proprietors of Bow

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [472] p.527 – 15 February 1762 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.74–75: PC 2/109/74–75

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APC Citation 

v.4 [472] p.527–530 – 29 December 1762 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.433, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 453: PC 2/109/433, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 453

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court – September 1760

Superior Court – November 1760

Participants

Ayer, William

Carter, Daniel

Chandler, John

Colby, Abraham

Endicott, [John], former Governor of Massachusetts

Evans, John

Kimball, Abraham

Lovewell, Capt. John

Melvin, David

Proprietors of Bow

Rolfe, Benjamin

Simons, Timothy

Wentworth, John, former Governor of New Hampshire

Description

Land (“upon an Ejectment,” according to the Privy Council register). The conflict arises from the settling of the boundary of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Disposition

Reversed

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

    Merrill v Proprietors of the township of Bow – Report No. 06_1754_00 (APC, v.4 [231] p.239)

On the ejectment action involved here, see Additional Research.

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

Table of Cases (Rolfe v Proprietors of Bow)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Rolfe)

Counsel

[Signed] Wm. DeGrey (spelled here DeGray); Al. Wedderburn

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.181–184 (Includes manuscript notes)

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Library

New Hampshire Historical Society: 977.8bB784r

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Proprietors of Bow)

ESTC: N62941
Counsel

[Signed] C. Yorke; Al. Forrester

 
Note

Appendix to the case of the respondent and also a map

 
Library

American Antiquarian Society: LNhL Bow Grea N762 PF (Lacks appendix and map) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.)

Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.185–188 (Includes manuscript notes and appendix, f.189–190, and map, f.191–192) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

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Library

Massachusetts Historical Society: 1796 Lib.-XLg.7.29 (Lacks appendix; manuscript notes limited to minor underlining and the name of Thomas Hutchinson added in a margin) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

Library

New Hampshire Historical Society: 977.8bB784r (Includes appendix) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

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

Not found

Other Documents

Other Documents

The respondent’s printed case at the Massachusetts Historical Society is found in a folder entitled ‘Briefs respecting the Controversy between Massachusetts and New Hampshire’. The folder also includes the appellant’s case in Merrill v Proprietors of Bow, documents from the earlier royal commission to settle the boundary, and related maps. The maps at the British Library and in the Massachusetts Historical Society have not been compared.

 

 
Other Documents

Andrews, Guide to Manuscript Materials, p.94, 95, references:

 

 
 

     (1) British Library Additional Manuscripts 15487 f.96–103, Plans and Explanations of plans of Massachusetts and New Hampshire touching the boundary question and the bounds of certain towns as Rumford, Suncook, and Bow; and

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     (2) Additional Manuscripts 15489 f.5, which is the deposition in manuscript of B. Rolfe of Rumford regarding extracts from the “Proprietors Book of Rumford”.

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