Question - Pynchon vs. Stearns 1846

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

As I recall, I found enough to determine names & such, and i intend later to go back and re-research what links I've found. Though I don't believe I've seen an "original" of "Pynchon V. Stearns yet, I have seen a fair amount of documentation that got into print a just a few years later.

This: http://tinyurl.com/2dneds

Concerns the application of "Pynchon v. Stearns" and has additional background on the Pynchons & the Stearns. Start looking around pg. 44 and go to 53. As far as I can tell, this statement by Charles Stearns offers up considerable background of the family histories of these two clans. It looks like the struggle over control over property was enabling an-all out feud twixt the two clans.

I also found "dulanty v. pynchon"

http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=duke/fs

How is Charles Stearns related to Charlotte Stearns? As far as I can tell, Charlotte came from money. Her spiriterd defense of Giordano Bruno continues TRPV's exploration of heresy.
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From: "grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com>
> I've been doing extensive research lately.
> 
> I've discovered that it truly is the Stearns ancestor of TS Eliot (the
> Waste Land) who appears in the precident setting case vs Pynchon on waste
> in real estate inheritance, specifically who can commit waste and what
> constitutes waste. The gist of the history is, that English law was not
> applicable to American land, with vast forests that were seen as lacking in
> value until they were cultivated. _The Antiwilderness Bias in American
> Property Law_ John G. Sprankling _The University of Chicago Law Review_,
> Vol. 63, No. 2. (Spring, 1996), pp. 519-590. is a great resource on
> background of that... And I'm sure many of you are familiar with OBA's
> decendants, but did you really know the extent to which land ownership
> shaped the relations between the first couple three generations of Pynchons
> in MA and CT and their countrymen? _Land Tenancy and Social Order in
> Springfield, Massachusetts, 1652 to 1702, by Stephen Innes is a good
> article that focused on John Pynchon's land ownership. For example,
> typically at the time of about oh 1690 or so, about half of real estate
> inventories were typically valued at under £ 100.  The value of Colonel
> John's (at his death in 1703) real estate holdings alone exceeded £ 8,000.
> The reason why most men had so little land was because John Pynchon and his
> kinsmen had so much. You had to rent or leave. They had to improve his
> land, rent their tools from him, construct fences and nourish the
> livestock. Many lost sizable amounts of land, houses, became chronic
> debtors, etc.  I mean, some of the Pynchons would loose out on inheritances
> and speculation later, why, Joseph b. 1737 (who married Sara Ruggles) was a
> Tory and would go to Nova Scotia and have his property confiscated at the
> Revolution and all, but I'm focused right now on the Pynchon v Stearns case
> which occurred in 1846 I think.  OK. SO my question is does anyone have the
> original case of this? Can we know for certain who was pleading what? Was
> the first name of the Pynchon guy named anywhere? Are there any legal
> research people out there who can look up this case and see who was on what
> side? It would save me some time if someone somewhere knows how to find
> historical documents like the actual case. Probably have to go to a law
> library. 
> 
> Thanks
> Jill
> 
> 
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