| Appeals to the Privy Council |
| Report No. 11_1733_00 |
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Rhode Island |
| Case Name Short |
Torrey v Mumford |
| Case Name Long |
Joseph Torrey v George Mumford |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.3 [293] p.402 – 20 December 1733 – entry 1 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.3 (21 July 1732 – 18 July 1734) p.281, 489, 504: PC 2/92/281, 489, 504 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [293] p.402–404 – 16 July 1734 – entry 2 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.3 (21 July 1732 – 18 July 1734) p.527–529: PC 2/92/527–529 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [293] p.404 – 18 July 1733 recte 1734 – entry 3 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.3 (21 July 1732 – 18 July 1734) p.537–538: PC 2/92/537–538 |
Colonial Courts |
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Inferior Court of Common Pleas – last Tuesday in June 1732 Superior Court – first Tuesday of September 1732 Superior Court – Newport – last Tuesday in March 1733 |
Participants |
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Bundy, James Hull, John Miles, Rev. Mr. Samuel, Presbyterian minister Mumford, George Smith, John, surveyor Torrey, Joseph, Presbyterian minister, of South Kingstown in King’s County |
Description |
Land (trespass and ejectment) called the Petaquamsent (Petaquamset) purchase |
Disposition |
Reversed |
Notes |
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Related to other Privy Council appeals: MacSparran v Mumford – Report No. 11_1725_00 (APC, v.3 [85] p.118) MacSparran v Hassard – Report No. 11_1736_00 (APC, v.3 [390] p.518) All of these Privy Council appeals concern a dispute about glebe land and have overlapping parties. There is an extensive discussion of this dispute in Bilder, Salamanders and Sons of God, ch. 6. Multiple spellings are given for the surname of the Presbyterian minister – Miles in Torrey v Mumford; Nyles in MacSparran v Hassard; Myles in Chalmers, Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, 1:9. On the action of ‘trespass and ejectment’ involved here, see Additional Research. |
References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations |
Table of Cases (Torrey v Mumford) |
Additional Sources |
The entire dispute produced something of a pamphlet war: A brief representation of the case depending between the Rev. Dr. Mc’Sparran, plaintiff, and the Rev. Mr. Torrey, defendant, relating to the ministry land at Narraganset [Torrey, Brief Representation]; A brief representation of the case depending between the Rev. Dr. Mc’Sparran, plaintiff, and the Rev. Mr. Torrey, defendant, relating to the ministerial land in Narraganset in a letter from a gentleman at Newport to his friend in Boston [A.B., Brief Representation]; An answer to a printed letter said to be wrote from a gentleman in Newport to his friend in Boston Aug. 27; pretending to find fault with a brief representation of the case between Dr. McSparran plaintiff and Mr. Torrey defendant, relating to the ministry land in South Kingstown, Narragansett, which was dated July 1739 [Prince, Brief Representation]. |
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DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
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