Inhabitants of Townsend v. Inhabitants of Billerica
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the support of certain paupers. The parties submitted the action to the determination of the Court, upon a statement of facts ; by which it was agreed that the paupers were born in Townsend, and are the children of one Isaac Lewis, who has no settlement within the commonwealth, unless he can derive one from his grandfather, Benjamin Lewis, whose lawful settlement was in the town of Billerica.
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Assumpsit for the support of certain paupers. The parties submitted the action to the determination of the Court, upon a statement of facts ; by which it was agreed that the paupers were born in Townsend, and are the children of one Isaac Lewis, who has no settlement within the commonwealth, unless he can derive one from his grandfather, Benjamin Lewis, whose lawful settlement was in the town of Billerica. Samuel Lewis, the father of the said Isaac, was born in Billerica in the year 1746, lived there until after he had attained the age of twenty-one years,'was there married, and about the…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
The paupers, for whose support by the plaintiffs a demand is made in this action upon the town of Billerica, derive their settlement, if they have any in this commonwealth, from their father, Isaac Lewis. He was born at Washington, in the state of New Hampshire. His parents had removed to that place about a year before, from Billerica, where the father of Isaac Lewis was born in 1746, and where he lived until his coming of age. Upon these facts, without going farther back, we must consider as proved, that Samuel Lewis, the father of Isaac Lewis, had a lawful settlement in Billerica when he…
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