Overseers of the Poor of Bradford v. Overseers of the Poor of Lunenburgh
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal by the Overseers of Lunenburgh from the order of removal made on the complainCof the Overseers of Bradford, against Harvey Webb, and others. The appellants plead, that said Harvey was unduly removed, because his last place of legal settlement was not in Lu-nenburgh. Issue joined to the Court.
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This was an appeal by the Overseers of Lunenburgh from the order of removal made on the complainCof the Overseers of Bradford, against Harvey Webb, and others. The appellants plead, that said Harvey was unduly removed, because his last place of legal settlement was not in Lu-nenburgh. Issue joined to the Court. The parties submitted the cause to the Court for consideration and decision upon the following facts, viz : That the said Harvey Webb was born in Lancaster, in the State of New-Hampshire, on the 24th day of July, 1798 — That the said Harvey moved with his parents, Ashbel O. Webb and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Baylies, J.
The pauper’s father had a legal settlement in Lunenburgh, where he resided with his family fourteen or fifteen years, and then died.
The pauper’s mother, in 1814 and ’15, after the death of her husband, and during her widowhood, gained a legal settlement in Newbury, by one year’s residence in that town, without being warned out, according to the act of November 6th, 1801.
The pauper, while his mother was gaining her legal settlement in Newbury, resided in the family of his uncle, at Lunenburgh, and was 16 or 17 years of age.
It does not appear…
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