Inhabitants of Manchester v. Inhabitants of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for money expended in the support of Jane Burge' and her children, alleged to be paupers, and to have a legal settlement in Boston. The action was submitted to the opinion of the Court, upon the following facts agreed by the parties.
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Assumpsit for money expended in the support of Jane Burge' and her children, alleged to be paupers, and to have a legal settlement in Boston. The action was submitted to the opinion of the Court, upon the following facts agreed by the parties. David Bulges (father of Amasa B., the husband of the pauper Jane B.), was born in the state [then colony] of Connecticut, and in the year 1759 his father removed to Nova Scotia; and the said David, then about two years of age, was carried thither with his father’s family. The said Amasa was born in Nova Scotia in the year 1780. In 1797, the said David '…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court. .The question in this case is, whether Jane Burges, the pauper, and her children, *197have a derivative settlement in the town of Manchester, under her late husband, Amasa Burges.
Her proper settlement prior to her marriage was in Boston, she having been born of parents who were legally settled in that town. She acquired no new settlement by her first marriage, her husband being confessedly an alien. Had then Amasa B., her second husband, a settlement in Manchester ?
He could have none in his own right; for he was born in Nova Scotia, within the…
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