Inhabitants of Windham v. Inhabitants of Portland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was assumpsit for the support of a pauper, and came before the Court upon the following agreed statement of facts: — “It is agreed by the parties that Matthew Tobin, the person mentioned in the declaration, is a native of Ireland, and came to that part of Falmouth now called Portland in the year 1754, and resided there until 1761, when he removed to Penobscot, a place then unincorporated, and there resided until the year 1776, at which time he removed to Windham, and…
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This was assumpsit for the support of a pauper, and came before the Court upon the following agreed statement of facts: — “It is agreed by the parties that Matthew Tobin, the person mentioned in the declaration, is a native of Ireland, and came to that part of Falmouth now called Portland in the year 1754, and resided there until 1761, when he removed to Penobscot, a place then unincorporated, and there resided until the year 1776, at which time he removed to Windham, and has resided there ever since, excepting the years 1803 and 1804, when he was absent at Penobscot. He was duly taxed in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
We are to decide, upon the facts stated, whether the settlement of Matthew Tobin, the pauper, be or be not in Portland.
The pauper came to Falmouth in 1754, and dwelt there until 1761, without being warned to remove from that town. He, therefore, had a legal settlement in that town. He afterwards removed to Penobscot, where he lived until 1776; but Penobscot being a plantation unincorporated, he did not lose his settlement in Falmouth. In 1776, he removed to Windham, and has lived there ever since, except the years 1783 and…
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