Supreme Court of Connecticut November 15, 1817 (Inhabitants of Windsor v. Inhabitants of Hartford)

Swift, Ch. J.

Fanny, the pauper in question, was the child of a slave of Jonathan Butler of Hartford, and acquired a settlement, by birth, in the town of Hartford. She was free at the age of twenty-five $ and, of course, is to be considered as a free person, and never was a slave.