Garwood v. Overseers of the Poor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vredenburgh, J.

The child was horn, July 21st, 1854, in the township of Waterford. The mother was a minor, whose legal settlement was in the township of Gloucester, where she liad always resided with her father. She went on a temporary visit to her brothers, in Waterford, three months before the child was born, and stayed there eleven weeks after. She has no property, and had always been supported by her father. The brother applied to the overseer of Waterford, who told him to provide for the mother and child, and lie should he paid. The proceedings…