Inhabitants of Hallowell v. Inhabitants of Gardiner
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit for the support of a pauper alleged to have her legal settlement in Gardiner. In a case stated for the opinion of the Court, the following facts were admitted. Harriet, the pauper, was the grandchild of Isaac Hazard Stockbridge and Cooper his wife.
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Assumpsit for the support of a pauper alleged to have her legal settlement in Gardiner. In a case stated for the opinion of the Court, the following facts were admitted. Harriet, the pauper, was the grandchild of Isaac Hazard Stockbridge and Cooper his wife. Hazard was a negro man, imported from Africa about the year 1740, when a child, and was claimed as a slave by purchase by Doctor Sylvester Gardiner, and as such ever considered himself; and resided with his master, in Boston, from the time when he was imported, until about the year 1766. In the year 1765, Hazard, with the consent of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Mellen C. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court, as follows. The counsel for the plaintiffs rests his cause on four distinct grounds : and if either of them be substantial the settlement of the pauper and her children must be adjudged to be in the town of Gardiner.
The four grounds are these :
1. That Hazard, the slave, was manumitted by Dr. Gardiner, his master; and thus being free, and residing in a place called Gardinerstown in the year 1779, when that plantation was incorporated into a town by the name of Pittston, he gained a legal settlement in Pittston :—that there was a division of…
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- Inhabitants of Buckfield v. Inhabitants of GorhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Inhabitants of Bath v. Inhabitants of BowdoinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
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