Robert Love's Warnings

Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston

• Author(s): Cornelia H. Dayton, Sharon V. Salinger,
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Pages: 260
• ISBN_10: 0812245938
  ISBN_13: 9780812245936
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) , History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

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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.