Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 05_1734_05

Philips v Savage

Massachusetts 

Case Name Short

Philips v Savage

Case Name Long

Gillam Philips v Hannah Savage, Faith Savage, Hannah Philips, and representatives for Mary Butler

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.432 – 7 November 1734 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.4 (1 August 1734 – 23 September 1736) p.36: PC 2/93/36

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.432 – 20 April 1737 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.4 (1 August 1734 – 23 September 1736) p.95, 100–101, 166–167, 186: PC 2/93/95, 100–101, 166–167, 186

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PC Register Citation 

George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.203: PC 2/94/203

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.432–433 – 21 July 1737 – entry 3

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.267: PC 2/94/267

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.433 – 23 December 1737 – entry 4

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.353–354, 374: PC 2/94/353–354, 374

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.433–436 – 16 January 1738 – entry 5

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.375–378: PC 2/94/375–378

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APC Citation 

v.3 [322] p.436 – 15 February 1738 – entry 6

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.5 (1 October 1736 – 4 September 1738) p.424: PC 2/94/424

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Colonial Courts

Probate of Wills – 6 April and 15 May 1733 (distribution on 10 October 1733)

Governor and Council – 2 November 1733 (Order of Governor and Council – 6 November 1733)

Participants

Boydell, John, Register of the Court of Probate of Wills

Butler, Mary (deceased sister of Gillam Philips, Henry Philips, Faith Savage, and Hannah Savage, and daughter of Hannah Philips)

Philips (Phillips), Gillam of Boston (brother of Henry Philips, Hannah Savage, Faith Savage, and Mary Butler; son of Hannah Philips; and administrator of Henry Philips)

Philips (Phillips), Hannah (mother of Gillam Philips, Henry Philips, Hannah Savage, Faith Savage, and Mary Butler)

Philips (Phillips), Henry, gentleman, of Boston (deceased brother of Gillam Philips, Hannah Savage, Faith Savage, and Mary Butler, and son of Hannah Philips)

Savage, Arthur (husband of Faith Savage)

Savage, Faith (sister of Gillam Philips, Henry Philips, Hannah Savage, and Mary Butler; daughter of Hannah Philips; and wife of Arthur Savage)

Savage, Habijah, esquire (husband of Hannah Savage)

Savage, Hannah (sister of Gillam Philips, Henry Philips, Faith Savage, and Mary Butler; daughter of Hannah Philips; and wife of Habijah Savage)

Wilks, Samuel, agent for Massachusetts Bay

Willard, Josiah, esquire, Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills

Description

Intestate distribution

Disposition

Affirmed

Notes

Agent Samuel Wilks in Participants may in fact be Francis Wilks.

This appeal is often discussed with Winthrop v Lechmere and Clark v Towsey as to their treatment of the division of an intestate’s property in the colonies and the degree to which colonial legislation was subject to review. The printed cases of both the appellant and the respondent have been transcribed and published by the Massachusetts Historical Society as “Phillips vs. Savage” with a commentary under the same title by Ames and Willard. They are also available in Gale’s Making of Modern Law: Trials, under the title Philips v Philips.

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

Table of Cases (Philips v Savage) (extensive discussion)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (Philips)

ESTC: N16903
Counsel

[Signed] D. Ryder; John Brown

 
Note

Printed case for the appellant names the case Philips v Philips

 
Library

American Antiquarian Society: British Broadsides

Library

Harvard University. Harvard Law School Library: Special Collections. Rare Trials P Folio (Manuscript notes limited to date and ‘judgment affirmed’ on the dorse)

Library

Law Library of Congress: Rare Books – Law Library Reading Room – K379.P485 P485 1737 LL Trials (Respondent’s case is at the same call number.)

Library

Massachusetts Historical Society: Bdses 1737 (Includes manuscript notes)

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Library

New York Public Library: (?) (The ESTC lists copies of the appellant [N16903] and respondent [N17105] cases at the New York Public Library, but a vigorous search by a librarian failed to find evidence of NYPL ownership.) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.)

Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondents (Savage)

ESTC: N17105
Counsel

[Signed] J. Strange; Jonath’ Belcher

 
Note

Printed case is the case of Faith Savage, one of the respondents.

 
Library

American Antiquarian Society: British Broadsides (Noted in ESTC? No.)

Library

Harvard University. Harvard Law School Library: Special Collections. Rare Trials P Folio (Includes manuscript notes) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

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Library

Law Library of Congress: Rare Books – Law Library Reading Room – K379.P485 P485 1737 LL Trials (Appellant’s case is at the same call number.) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

Library

Massachusetts Historical Society: Bdses 1738 Jan. 13 (Includes manuscript notes)

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Library

New York Public Library: (?) (The ESTC lists copies of the appellant [N16903] and respondent [N17105] cases at the New York Public Library, but a vigorous search by a librarian failed to find evidence of NYPL ownership.) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.)

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

Not found

 

Other Documents

Other Documents

Note papers relating to the dispute in the Henry Philips Papers, 1728–1738, (with Finding Aid) in the Harvard Law School Library.