 | Robert Love''s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Warning out (Law); Strangers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 18th century; Migration Internal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 18th century; Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions; Robert Love's Warnings follows the walks of one otherwise obscure townclerk, Robert Love, as he warned itinerants and sojourners to depart the town in fourteen days. Love's meticulous records reveal the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New England in the decade before the Revolution. Cornelia H. Dayton is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and author of Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Sharon V. Salinger is Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 and Taverns and Drinking in Early America. |
