Inhabitants of Andover v. Inhabitants of Canton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was assumpsit for $499.65, expended by the plaintiffs in the relief and support of one Lewis Elisha, his wife, and four children. The parties submitted the action to the determination of the Court, upon certain facts stated, in substance as follows.
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This action was assumpsit for $499.65, expended by the plaintiffs in the relief and support of one Lewis Elisha, his wife, and four children. The parties submitted the action to the determination of the Court, upon certain facts stated, in substance as follows. The said Lewis Elisha was born in that part of the town of Stoughton which is now Canton, in the year 1773. His parents were Caesar Elisha and Abigail Moho, who were lawfully married in 1769. The said Caesar was, at the time of Lewis’s birth, and long before, a negro slave of Charles Wentworth, and so continued until bis death, in…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The facts agreed in this case show, that the pauper, Lewis Elisha, was born in that part of Stoughton now Canton; that his father was, at the time of Lewis’s birth, and long before, a negro slave of a Mr. Wentworth, living and having a legal settlement in the same part of Stoughton ; that the father continued to be held in slavery until his death in 1780. The mother of Lewis was the daughter of an Indian of the Punkapog tribe, which tribe occupied lands and resided within the limit! of Canton, and of a white woman, and was married to Caesar, the father of Lewis, in 1769. Whether her said…
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