Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1768_02

Millward v Lindsay

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

John Millward, James Lewis, and Thomas Penoyre v John and Grace Lindsay

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [73] p.151 (29 June 1768 – 14 April 1769)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.6 (Jan. 1768 – April 1769) p.225–226, 244, 501–502, 538: PC 2/113/225–226, 244, 501–502, 538

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 6 July 1767

 

Participants

Gardner, Grace – see Lindsay, Grace

 

Gardner, John, deceased

 

Gardner, Thomas, the younger, deceased (husband of Grace [now Grace Lindsay])

 

Lewis, James, appellant (executor and trustee of John Gardner)

 

Lindsay (formerly Gardner), Grace, respondent (wife of John, widow of Thomas Gardner)

 

Lindsay, [Rev. Dr.] John, respondent (husband of Grace)

 

Millward, John, appellant (executor and trustee of John Gardner)

 

Penoyre, Thomas, appellant (executor and trustee of John Gardner)

 

Description

Concerning an annuity in lieu of dower.

Disposition

Decree affirmed.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Lindsay v Wake, Sturt v Wake – Report No. JAM_1779_01 (APC, v.5 [367] p.472).

The information about Thomas Gardner in the Participants list comes from the committee report and JAM_1779_01.

 

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

Table of Cases (Millward v Lindsay)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (John Millward, Thomas Penoyre, and James Lewis v John and Grace Lindsay

Counsel

Wm. De Grey; Al. Wedderburn

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36220 f.213r–217v (Printed date on dorse 176_ with manuscript note. Extensive additional manuscript notes and minor underlining.)

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Library

Columbia University. Diamond Law Library: (William Samuel Johnson Collection) Treasure – Johnson 1770m and Microfilm – AA70 (Printed date on dorse 176_. No manuscript notes.)

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

 
TNA Document Appeal – 29 June 1768 (PC 1/59/6/1) view_Document
Catalogued as

Jamaica, West Indies: Appeal of Millward v Lindsay

 
Notes about
Document
Catalogued by The National Archives at Kew.

 

TNA Document Committee report – 15 March 1769 (PC 1/59/6/2) view_Document
Catalogued as

Jamaica, West Indies: Report of Appeals Committee on appeal of Millward v Lindsay

 
Notes about
Document
Catalogued by The National Archives at Kew.

 


ADDITIONAL RESEARCH

The APC incorrectly states that Grace’s dower, which it correctly describes as an annuity in lieu of dower, would have come from the estate of John Gardner. According to the committee report, however, it would have come from the estate of Thomas Gardner, Grace’s late husband. As the report phrases it, the case concerned: “an Agreement entered into, between the said John Gardner deceased, and the said Grace, for Payment of a certain Annuity to her in lieu of Dower, out of the Estate of Thomas Gardner deceased.” The relationship between John and Thomas is not stated. John was probably Thomas’s executor, perhaps his brother as well. See Additional Research on ANT_1726_03.

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