Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. BAR_1756_02

Adams v Sturge

Barbados 

 

Case Name Long

Samuel Adams, George Greeme, Elizabeth Maxwell, and Thomas and Elizabeth Inch v William Sturge

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [310] p.334 (10 April 1756 – 1 April 1758)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.16 (1 Jan. 1756 – 31 Dec. 1757) p.158, 159, 541–542, 548, 554–555, 570: PC 2/105/158, 159, 541–542, 548, 554–555, 570

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.17 (1 Jan. 1758 – 21 May 1759) p.46, 93–94: PC 2/106/46, 93–94

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 2 Dec. 1737

 
 

Chancery – 9 July 1755

 

Participants

Adams, John (brother of Margaret [now Margaret Maxwell] and Samuel)

 

Adams, Margaret – see Maxwell, Margaret

 

Adams, Samuel, esquire, appellant (brother of John and Margaret [now Margaret Maxwell])

 

Bishop, Elizabeth – see Ince, Elizabeth

 

Bishop, Margaret – see Maxwell, Margaret

 

Bishop, Robert (1), sen., deceased (husband of Margaret [now Margaret Maxwell], father of Robert [2] and Elizabeth [now Elizabeth Ince])

 

Bishop, Robert (2), jun., respondent (son of Robert [1] and Margaret [now Margaret Maxwell])

 

Gibbons, John, appellant, deceased (administrator of Robert Bishop [1])

 

Greeme, George, esquire, appellant

 

Inch (née Bishop), Elizabeth, appellant (wife of Thomas, daughter of Robert Bishop [1] and Margaret Maxwell)

 

Inch (Ince), Thomas, esquire, appellant (husband of Elizabeth)

 

Maxwell, Elizabeth, spinster, appellant (daughter of Thomas and Margaret)

 

Maxwell (née Adams, formerly Bishop), Margaret, deceased (wife of Thomas Maxwell, widow of Robert Bishop [1], sister of John and Samuel Adams, mother of Elizabeth, Robert Bishop [2], and Elizabeth Ince)

 

Maxwell, Thomas, respondent (husband and administrator of Margaret, father of Elizabeth)

 

Sturge, William, respondent (administrator of Robert Bishop [1])

 

Description

Concerning payment of legacies.

Disposition

Barbados Chancery order of 1755 reviving Gibbons’s unprosecuted appeal reversed. Sturge’s petition for revival of Gibbons’s appeal by the Privy Council, as well as Gibbons’s appeal of 1737, are dismissed.

Notes

The appellants’ printed case is summarized 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), 6:119-120 (view).

 

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

Table of Cases (Adams v Sturge) (extensive discussion)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Samuel Adams, Elizabeth Maxwell, and Thomas and Elizabeth Ince v William Sturge), with appendix

Counsel

C. Pratt; C. Yorke

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.172r–181v (Printed date on dorse 8 July 1757 with lengthy manuscript notes. Additional manuscript notes and brackets.)

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Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 8 July 1757; no manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Samuel Adams, Elizabeth Maxwell, and Thomas and Elizabeth Ince v William Sturge)

Counsel

Geo. Perrot; Alex. Forester

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 8 July 1757; no manuscript notes or underlinings.)

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

 

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