Inhabitants of Newton v. Inhabitants of Braintree
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the support of a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to be legally chargeable to the town of Braintree. It was agreed that the pauper was the illegitimate child of Sarah Blanchard, otherwise called Sarah French, and was born in Newton in the year 1790. Sarah Blanchard, the mother of the pauper, was the illegitimate child of Sarah Blanchard the elder, and was born in that part of Braintree which still retains the corporate name, on the 3d of March, 1767. In the…
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Assumpsit for the support of a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to be legally chargeable to the town of Braintree. It was agreed that the pauper was the illegitimate child of Sarah Blanchard, otherwise called Sarah French, and was born in Newton in the year 1790. Sarah Blanchard, the mother of the pauper, was the illegitimate child of Sarah Blanchard the elder, and was born in that part of Braintree which still retains the corporate name, on the 3d of March, 1767. In the year 1773, Nathaniel French, who was the reputed father of the pauper’s mother, and who had a legal settlement in that…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
In the case of The Inhabitants of Petersham vs. The Inhabitants of Dana, (1) it was decided that, by the statute of 1789, c. 14, an illegitimate child, which had the settlement of its mother at the time of its birth, would acquire a new settlement with the mother, until it should acquire one in its own right. * In the case of The Inhabitants of Boylston vs. The Inhabitants of Princeton, (2) it was settled that, under the statute of 1793, c. 32, now in force, an illegitimate child retains the settlement derived from the mother at the time of its birth, without being affected by any settlement…
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