| Appeals to the Privy Council |
| Report No. 05_1764_00 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Colonial Courts |
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Superior Court – 18 September 1758 Superior Court – February 1763 (but entered on record as of October 1762) |
Participants |
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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 |
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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 |
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. |
| 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. |
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