Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 13_1762_02

Rickards v Hudson

Virginia 

Case Name Short

Rickards v Hudson

Case Name Long

Samuel Rickards, Archibald Maclane, Israel Mauduit, Edmund Lardner, William Cooke, Francis Jerdone, Robert Duncanson and Ann Buchanan v John and Ann Hudson, William and Martha Johnson, Roger Gregory, Orlando Jones, Rolling Jones and Francis Barber Jones

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [475] p.531 – 9 April 1762 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.196–197: PC 2/109/196–197

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APC Citation 

v.4 [475] p.531–532 – 3 August 1762 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.288–293, 326: PC 2/109/288–293, 326

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Colonial Courts

General Court of Chancery – 10 April 1761

Participants

Barber, Mary (niece of Elizabeth Milner)

Barber, Mr. (a deceased husband of Anna Maria Timson Barber Scarburgh Thornton)

Buchanan, Ann, widow, of Glasgow in North Britain (executor of Neil Buchanan)

Buchanan, George, bankrupt merchant, late of London (executor of Neil Buchanan)

Buchanan, James, merchant, of London

Buchanan, Neil, esquire, of London, deceased

Cooke, William, merchant, of London (assignee of the estate and effects of George Buchanan and William Hamilton)

Duncanson, Robert, merchant, of Virginia

Goslin, William (executor of Elizabeth Milner)

Gregory, Roger (executor of Lane Jones)

Hamilton, William, bankrupt merchant, late of London (executor of Neil Buchanan)

Hanbury, Mr.

Hudson, Ann (daughter of Lane Jones and wife of John Hudson)

Hudson, John (husband of Ann Hudson)

Jerdone, Francis, merchant, of Virginia

Johnson, Martha (daughter of Lane Jones and wife of William Johnson)

Johnson, William (husband of Martha Johnson)

Jones, Francis Barber (daughter of Lane Jones)

Jones, Lane (deceased father of Ann Hudson, Martha Johnson, and Orlando, Rolling, and Francis Barber Jones)

Jones, Lane (possibly the deceased son of Lane Jones)

Jones, Orlando (son of Lane Jones)

Jones, Rolling (son of Lane Jones)

Keys, Maurice (executor of Elizabeth Milner)

Lardner, Edmund, merchant, of London (assignee of the estate and effects of George Buchanan and William Hamilton)

Maclane, Archibald, merchant, of London (assignee of the estate and effects of George Buchanan and William Hamilton)

Manly, Mr.

Mauduit, Israel, merchant, of London (assignee of estate and effects of George Buchanan and William Hamilton)

Milner, Elizabeth of the Strand in London (deceased aunt of William Timson and Mary Barber)

Palmer, Charlton

Rickards, Samuel, merchant, of London (assignee of the estate and effects of George Buchanan and William Hamilton)

Robothan, Charles (son of Walter Robothan)

Robothan, Sarah (widow of Walter Robothan)

Robothan, Walter (deceased executor of Elizabeth Milner, father of Charles and Walter Robothan, and husband of Sarah Robothan)

Robothan, Walter (son of Walter Robothan)

Scarburgh, Col. Edmund (husband of Anna Maria Timson Barber Scarburgh Thornton)

Thornton, Anna Maria Timson Barber Scarburgh (wife of William Timson, then William Barber, then Edmund Scarburgh, and then John Thornton)

Thornton, John (another husband of Anna Maria Timson Barber Scarburgh Thornton)

Timson, Samuel (alias John) (son of William Timson)

Timson, William (The number of William Timsons mentioned is unclear.)

Description

Debt that, according to Smith (p.490), raises the question of the extension of the bankruptcy acts to Virginia

Disposition

Reversed

Notes

Spelling of Rolling Jones is more often Rowland, Roland, or Rolando. Francis Barber Jones is more properly Frances. The Jones, Timson, and Barber families are related by blood and marriage. See Cary, “Descendants of Rev. Rowland Jones.”

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

Table of Cases (Rickards et al v Hudson et al)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (Rickards)

Counsel

[Signed] C. Yorke; Al. Forrester

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.199–201 and f.202–204 (Two copies, both with manuscript notes)

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Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (Hudson)

Counsel

[Signed] Tho. Sewell; Wm. DeGrey

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.205–206

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

TNA Document Committee report – 15 July 1762 – PC 1/50/47 view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC, v.6 [539] p.339

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Other Documents

Other Documents

The cases of Timson v Robertson and Scarbury & ux. v Barber’s Ex’or in Barton, Virginia Colonial Decisions, 2:B85–B87, B294–304, involve members of some of the families involved in this case, and probably some of the same people. Whether the issues are otherwise related requires further exploration.