Overseers of the Poor of Washington v. Overseers of the Poor of Stanford
New York Supreme Court
THIS cause came before the court on an appeal from an order of the general sessions of the peace of Dutchess county. It appeared, that one Huddlestone and his wife and four infant children, were removed, as paupers, from the town of Stanford to the town of Washington, by an order of two justices, dated the 18th of December, 1806, which stated that the paupers had become chargeable to the town of Stanford, and had not gained any legal settlement therein, and they adjudged…
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THIS cause came before the court on an appeal from an order of the general sessions of the peace of Dutchess county. It appeared, that one Huddlestone and his wife and four infant children, were removed, as paupers, from the town of Stanford to the town of Washington, by an order of two justices, dated the 18th of December, 1806, which stated that the paupers had become chargeable to the town of Stanford, and had not gained any legal settlement therein, and they adjudged their legal settlement to be in the town of Washington. Previous to this order, the paupers had been removed to the town df…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Ness, J.
The only question in the case is, whether the town of Stanford, in Washington, is chargeable with the maintenance of John Huddlestone, who became a pauper on the 18th of December, 1806 ? To determine this, it is necessary to inquire which of the towns is the last place of his legal settlement.
The town of Washington was divided in 1793, and that part of it which is now the town of Stanford., was erected into a separate town. The pauper was born in the territory now composing the present town of Washington, but at the time when the town of Washington was divided, under the act for the dividing…
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