04925nam 2200745 450 991046500440332120211008022904.00-8122-2404-30-8122-0632-010.9783/9780812206326(CKB)3710000000089334(OCoLC)876042094(CaPaEBR)ebrary10838999(SSID)ssj0001189790(PQKBManifestationID)11674275(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189790(PQKBWorkID)11188988(PQKB)10999465(MiAaPQ)EBC3442337(OCoLC)876736263(MdBmJHUP)muse32970(DE-B1597)449815(DE-B1597)9780812206326(Au-PeEL)EBL3442337(CaPaEBR)ebr10838999(CaONFJC)MIL682644(EXLCZ)99371000000008933420140303h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrRobert Love's warnings searching for strangers in colonial Boston /Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (273 p.)Early American StudiesIncludes index.1-322-51362-7 0-8122-4593-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Prologue. A Walking Day --Introduction --Chapter 1. Mr. Love’s Mission --Chapter 2. The Warner --Chapter 3. Origins --Chapter 4. Walking and Warning --Chapter 5. The Warned and Why They Came --Interlude. A Sojourner’s Arrival --Chapter 6. Lodgings --Chapter 7. Sojourners of the Respectable Sort --Chapter 8. Travelers in Distress --Chapter 9. Warning in the Midst of Imperial Crises --Epilogue --Appendix A. Traveling Parties and Locations They Were ‘‘Last From’’ --Appendix B. Sources for Robert Love’s Warning Records, by Date --Abbreviations --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice and the religious and humanistic vision of those who enforced it.Historians Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger follow one otherwise obscure town clerk, Robert Love, as he walked through Boston's streets to tell sojourners, "in His Majesty's Name," that they were warned to depart the town in fourteen days. This declaration meant not that newcomers literally had to leave, but that they could not claim legal settlement or rely on town poor relief. Warned youths and adults could reside, work, marry, or buy a house in the city. If they became needy, their relief was paid for by the province treasurer. Warning thus functioned as a registration system, encouraging the flow of labor and protecting town coffers.Between 1765 and 1774, Robert Love warned four thousand itinerants, including youthful migrant workers, demobilized British soldiers, recently exiled Acadians, and women following the redcoats who occupied Boston in 1768. Appointed warner at age sixty-eight owing to his unusual capacity for remembering faces, Love kept meticulous records of the sojourners he spoke to, including where they lodged and whether they were lame, ragged, drunk, impudent, homeless, or begging. Through these documents, Dayton and Salinger reconstruct the biographies of travelers, exploring why so many people were on the move throughout the British Atlantic and why they came to Boston. With a fresh interpretation of the role that warning played in Boston's civic structure and street life, Robert Love's Warnings reveals the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New England in the decade before the Revolution.Early American studies.Warning out (Law)StrangersMassachusettsBostonHistory18th centuryMigration, InternalMassachusettsBostonHistory18th centuryBoston (Mass.)HistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Boston (Mass.)Social conditions18th centuryElectronic books.Warning out (Law)StrangersHistoryMigration, InternalHistory974.4/6102Dayton Cornelia H1044885Salinger Sharon V(Sharon Vineberg)878491MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465004403321Robert Love's warnings2470780UNINA