Overseers of the Poor of Marbletown v. Overseers of the Poor of Kingston
New York Supreme Court
THIS cause was submitted to die Court, by the counsel for the parties, without argument, upon the following case: The cause came before the Court of Sessions of Ulster county, in April, 1821, on an appeal from the order of two Justices, removing a pauper from the town of Kingston to the town of Marbletown. The Court of Sessions dismissed the appeal, and confirmed the order.
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THIS cause was submitted to die Court, by the counsel for the parties, without argument, upon the following case: The cause came before the Court of Sessions of Ulster county, in April, 1821, on an appeal from the order of two Justices, removing a pauper from the town of Kingston to the town of Marbletown. The Court of Sessions dismissed the appeal, and confirmed the order. The facts were these: Fran- * # t . cisca, the mother of the pauper, was bora in 1800, in the town of Marbletown, of parents who were slaves, in the house of J. H. Hasbrouck. Her master, according to the then e e existing…
1Opinion of the CourtPlatt, J.
This is a case made on an appeal by the overseers of the poor of Marbletown against the overseers of Kingston, in the General Sessions of Ulster county. The facts are, that Francisca, the mother of the pauper in question, was born of slave parents, in the town of Marbletown, in 1800; and in 1801, pursuant to the 10 th section of the act of the 8th of April, 1801, (1 K. & R. ed. 616.) she was regularly abandoned by her master to the overseers of that town, and thereby she became a free pauper of that town, with power in the overseers to draw her support from the state treasury, &ic. In 1817,…
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