Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 05_1764_00

Dudley v Richards

Massachusetts 

 

Case Name Short

Dudley v Richards

 
Case Name Long

Thomas Dudley v Joseph and Elizabeth Richards, Benjamin and Rebecca Guerrish, Joseph Dudley, John and Mary Cotton, and Ann Dudley

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [573] p.688 – 20 July 1764 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.3 (1 May 1763 – 30 September 1764) p.560: PC 2/110/560

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APC Citation 

v.4 [573] p.688 – 3 August 1764 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.3 (1 May 1763 – 30 September 1764) p.586, 601: PC 2/110/586, 601

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PC Register Citation 

George III v.4 (1 October 1764 – 27 August 1766) p.186, 197–198, 444: PC 2/111/186, 197–198, 444

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Colonial Courts

Superior Court – 18 September 1758

Superior Court – February 1763 (but entered on record as of October 1762)

Participants

Brown, Mr. (appears for respondents in Austin Friars)

Cotton, John (husband of Mary Cotton)

Cotton, Mary (wife of John Cotton)

Dudley, Ann, a minor

Dudley, Joseph (deceased grandfather of Thomas Dudley and father of William Dudley)

Dudley, Joseph

Dudley, Thomas, gentleman (son of William Dudley)

Dudley, William (deceased father of Thomas Dudley)

Guerrish, Benjamin (husband of Rebecca Guerrish)

Guerrish, Rebecca (wife of Benjamin Guerrish)

Richards, Elizabeth (wife of Joseph Richards)

Richards, Joseph (husband of Elizabeth Richards)

Sharpe, Joshua of Lincoln’s Inn

Smith, Mr. (appears for respondents in Austin Friars)

Description

Land in dispute is a farm of 1000 acres at Manchaug or Mancheag.

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

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

TNA Document Committee report – 27 July 1764 – PC 1/50/52 view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC, v.6 [618] p.371

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Other Documents

Other Documents

See the report on the colonial court proceedings in Quincy, Massachusetts Reports 1761–1772, p. 110–127, under the name Dudley v Dudley.

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Other Documents

Note also the Joshua Sharpe papers in the collection of Thomas Phillipps at the Library of Congress, Division of Manuscripts, which contain legal papers related to this appeal.