Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1726_02

Carpenter v Parry

Carpenter v Lyons

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Nathaniel Carpenter v John Parry, and the widow and executors of Samuel Parry

 
Case Name Long

Nathaniel Carpenter v Henry Lyons, guardian of Amy Parry

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [103] p.132–133 (9 Aug. 1726 – 19 Jan. 1732)

 
  PC Register Citation

George I v.5 (Sept. 1724 – May 1727) p.276–277, 307, 374–376: PC 2/89/276–277, 307, 374–376

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.1 (14 June 1727 – 22 May 1729) p.21–23: PC 2/90/21–23

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.414, 511, 531–532, 548: PC 2/91/414, 511, 531–532, 548

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 24 Nov. 1725 (Carpenter v Parry)

 
 

Governor and Council as a Court of Errors – 9 Dec. 1730 (Carpenter v Lyons)

 

Participants

Buckeridge, John, collector of the 4½ per cent duty

 

Carpenter, Nathaniel, merchant, of London, appellant

 

Cockran, Archibald (executor of Samuel Parry)

 

Kirby (Kerby), Thomas (executor of Samuel Parry)

 

Loyd, Amy – see Parry, Amy

 

Loyd, Catherine, widow (mother of Amy [now Amy Parry [1]])

 

Lyons, Henry, esquire, respondent (guardian of Amy Parry [2])

 

Parry (née Loyd), Amy (1), ?infant (wife of John [2], daughter of Catherine Loyd, mother of Amy [2])

 

Parry, Amy (2), infant (daughter of John [2] and Amy [1])

 

Parry, Elizabeth (widow and executrix of Samuel)

 

Parry, Henrietta – see Symes, Henrietta

 

Parry, John (1), deceased (husband of Henrietta [now Henrietta Symes], father of Samuel)

 

Parry, John (2), respondent (husband of Amy [1], eldest son of Samuel, father of Amy [2])

 

Parry, Samuel, deceased (husband of Elizabeth, son of John [1], father of John [2])

 

Symes (formerly Parry), Henrietta (widow of John Parry [1])

 

Yeamans, William (executor of Samuel Parry)

 

Description

Discovery of claims to an estate; ejectment.

Disposition

Chancery decree reversed in part, further proceedings directed; appeal from Court of Errors sustained.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Lyons v Lyons – Report No. ANT_1726_03 (APC, v.3 [104] p.133–134).

Participants not mentioned in the APC were added here for clarity. Information about these participants was obtained from related primary and other sources.

The appellant’s and respondent’s printed cases are summarized, with an additional footnote about the respondent, 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), 6:65–66 (view).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Nathaniel Carpenter v Amy Parry, by Henry Lyons)

Counsel

D. Ryder

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.53r–54v (Printed date on dorse 14 January 1731. No manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Nathaniel Carpenter v Amy Parry, by Henry Lyons)

Counsel

C. Talbot; J. Browne

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.55r–56v (Printed date on dorse 14 January 1731. No manuscript notes.)

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

 
TNA Document Petition and Order of reference (Carpenter v Parry) – 9 Aug. 1726 (PC 1/48/22) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [351] p.163.

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TNA Document Committee report (Carpenter v Parry) – 31 May 1727 (PC 1/48/23) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [385] p.192.

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