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Robert Love's Warnings : Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston / Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger.
LIBRA F73.4 .D39 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dayton, Cornelia Hughes, author.
- Salinger, Sharon V. (Sharon Vineberg), author.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal.
- History.
- Strangers.
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Warning out (Law).
- Strangers--Massachusetts--Boston--History--18th century.
- Migration, Internal--Massachusetts--Boston--History--18th century.
- Boston (Mass.)--Social conditions--18th century.
- Love, Robert, 1696 or 1697-1774.
- Love, Robert.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- "The job Robert Love performed had no name. He was one of several Boston residents appointed in the mid-1760s to walk the town's streets and wharves 'to warn Strangers out.' Despite the fact that such minor officers had been in place for thirty years in the province's largest ports, New Englanders never created a title for them.... Love's own biography was more like those he warned than the other Bostonians who served as warners. He neither held other town offices nor accumulated great wealth. Were it not for his extraordinary records, Love would have escaped notice. He was chosen as warner, we can surmise, because he had two rare gifts: an unusually adept visual memory for human faces and a tenacity for record keeping. While these traits did not lead to fame and fortune, they turned Robert Love into one of the most thorough chroniclers of people on the move in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world."-From the Introduction Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mr. Love's mission
- The warner
- Origins
- Walking and warning
- The warned and why they came
- Interlude: A sojourner's arrival
- Lodgings
- Sojourners of the respectable sort
- Travelers in distress
- Warning in the midst of imperial crises
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812245936
- 0812245938
- OCLC:
- 860943795
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