Case Name: Baggon and others Complainants v. Sacheverel Defendant
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1721-11-17
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 269
Docket Number: 
Parties: Baggon and others Complainants v. Sacheverel Defendant
Judges: Present, His Excellency The Governour, The Honourable Ralph Izard, Charles Hart, Francis Yonge, William Gibbon, Benjamin De la Conseillere, Esquires, Members of His Majesty’s Honourable Council Chancellour; Mr. William Tunley Master in Chancery.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 269–270

Head Matter:
South Carolina.
Present, His Excellency The Governour, The Honourable Ralph Izard, Charles Hart, Francis Yonge, William Gibbon, Benjamin De la Conseillere, Esquires, Members of His Majesty’s Honourable Council Chancellour; Mr. William Tunley Master in Chancery.
Baggon and others Complainants v. Sacheverel Defendant
The membership was unique in that instead of being named by the British ministry, it was appointed by General Francis Nicholson (1685-1738), provisional royal governor, who had already served as governor or lieutenant governor of four other colonies.. His Excellency was a bachelor, noted for his violent temper and bigoted devotion to the Church of England, but he labored in the cause of education and is said to have been an efficient administrator. See Dictionary of American Biography.
Ralph Izard (1688-1743), born in Carolina but educated in England, was a wealthy planter; he served as commissioner of the free school and of the Indian trade, and in the Commons House as well as on the Council (SCHGM, II, 309).
Charles Hart, secretary of the province, was sketched in note 14, supra.
Francis Yonge, former register of deeds and surveyor-general, was the author of A Narrative of the Proceedings of the People of South Carolina in the Year 1719; he was sent by the governor and Council to London in 1719 to explain the charges against Trott, whom he was named to succeed in 1731, but served as colonial agent 1731-1727, 1733 (B. F. Carroll, Historical Collections of South Carolina, 1836, II, 141; JC 1721, pp. 12, 11, 17, 25; McCrady, S. C. under Proprietary Government, P- 633)-
William Gibbon, a prosperous merchant of Charleston, was owner of the council chamber; he served as commissioner of the free school, commissioner to build St. Philip’s Church, and as member of Commons House; he died in 1725 (Crane, Southern Frontier, p. 121; St. Philip’s Register 1720-1758, p. 228).
Benjamin de la Conseillere, supra note 24, probably replaced Joseph Morton, recently deceased (SCHGM, V, 111).
The absent members were William Bull, Alexander Skene, Thomas Smith, James Kinloch, and Benjamin Schenckingh (JC 1721, p. 10).
William Tunley, clerk of Council and register of the Court of Vice-Admiralty (ibid., pp. 11, 26), was master until the appointment in 1725 of John Croft, who served into 1727, when Tunley resumed the office.

Opinion:
Upon Reading the Petition of Thomas Sacheverel an Infant under the age of 21 years, praying that Paul Hambleton, who hath always had the care of the Petitioner (and is charged as his Guardian in the Complainant's Bill) maybe appointed Guardian by this Honourable Court to the Petitioner, to appear and answer the Bill of Complaint of Elizabeth Baggon and John Baggon exhibited against him by Joseph Sealy and Ephraim Michall their next friend; Which This Court held reasonable, and Do Order the same accordingly.
Intr.
Thos Lamboll Deputy Register
Thomas Sacheveral (1701-1747), third of the name in South Carolina, was later a planter at Pon Pon, Colleton County (SCHGM, VI, 29, note; XXVI, 101).
Paul Hamilton was a justice of the peace in Colleton County (SCHGM, XI, 189).
Joseph Sealy and Ephraim Mikell, planters, were active in the earliest Baptist congregation on Edisto Island (Leah Townsend, South Carolina Baptists 1670-1805, 1935, p. 37).