Inhabitants of Boylston v. Inhabitants of Princeton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the support of Nancy Boioker, a pauper, from the 20th of August, 1814, to the 20th of April, 1815. At the trial, which was had on the general issue, at the last April term, before Putnam, J., there was evidence of notice to the defendants, and a denial on their part that the settlement of the pauper was in their town.
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Assumpsit for the support of Nancy Boioker, a pauper, from the 20th of August, 1814, to the 20th of April, 1815. At the trial, which was had on the general issue, at the last April term, before Putnam, J., there was evidence of notice to the defendants, and a denial on their part that the settlement of the pauper was in their town. It was proved, that the pauper was an illegitimate child *of Polly Hanners, alias Bowker, and that she was not born in Princeton, and that her mother, after the birth of her child, was married to one Elisha Sawyer, who held a farm in Princeton for his natural life,…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The question, which seems to have been intended to be argued in this case, has been given up ; probably being supposed to have been settled in the case of Conway vs. Deerfield. (3) But it has been contended for the plaintiffs, that the pauper, being an illegitimate child, acquired a settlement in Princeton with her mother, who acquired a settlement in that town by her marriage with Sawyer.
It has been determined in the case of Petersham vs. Dana, cited in the argument, that, by virtue of the statute of 1789, c. 14, repealed by the statute of 1793, c. 34, illegitimate children followed the…
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