Inhabitants of Hamilton v. Inhabitants of Ipswich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was assumpsit for the support of Elizabeth Lamson, a pauper, and was submitted, to the opinion of the Court upon the following facts agreed by the parties : — Thomas Lamson, the father of the said Elizabeth, was, in the yeai 1754, lawfully married to Anna Redington, and lived in that part of the then town of Ipswich which is now Hamilton, and which was incorporated into a town by an act passed on the 21st of June, (1793, Stat. 1793, c. 10,) which act recites and…
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This was assumpsit for the support of Elizabeth Lamson, a pauper, and was submitted, to the opinion of the Court upon the following facts agreed by the parties : — Thomas Lamson, the father of the said Elizabeth, was, in the yeai 1754, lawfully married to Anna Redington, and lived in that part of the then town of Ipswich which is now Hamilton, and which was incorporated into a town by an act passed on the 21st of June, (1793, Stat. 1793, c. 10,) which act recites and confirms certain articles of agreement, by which, among other things, it was agreed that Hamilton should pay to Ipswich a…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia.
It is unnecessary to consider the construction and effect of the act for incorporating the town of Hamilton, as it appears, from the facts stated by the parties in this case, that the pauper’s father acquired a new settlement after leaving Ipswich. He resided in Barnstable from 1765 to 1779. This gave him a settlement there, unless duly warned to depart, in the manner prescribed by the provincial act of 4 Will. Mar. c. 13. By a subsequent act, , (12 and 13 Will. 3, c. 10,) the time within which the warning was to be given, was extended to twelve months ; but the law was not in other…
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