did not have an estate equal to more than $750 at the present time. I do not mean by this the average of all persons, but the average of all persons who were considered well off. These people were naturally unwilling to be burdened with the responsibility of support for anybody who might come into the town, whether responsible or irresponsible. In addition to this there was at that time a large emigration of poor people from the Old World, and there was the flotsam and jetsam of a degenerate population coming up from the islands of the New World and flocking into the towns and villages of New England. It was right that these persons should become chargeable to the colony rather than to the towns. Warning out accomplished this purpose, and these statutes, as applied to the conditions under which they were passed, were reasonable and proper.
1497. Cabots' Discovery of North America. Gilbert's Possession of Newfoundland.
1601. First English Poor Law.
1602. Gosnold landed in New England.
1606. James I., Virginia Patent.
1620. James I., Grant to "Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, and Governing of New England in America."
1629. Charles I. grants Massachusetts Bay Charter. 1629. Charles I. grants New-Plimouth Charter.
1631. Grant to Connecticut Colony.
1638. Roger Williams's Settlement in Rhode Island. 1671. First Plymouth Warning Out Law. 1673. First Connecticut Warning Out Law. 1692. First Massachusetts Warning Out Statute. 1718. First Warning Out Act in New Hampshire. 1787. First Warning Out Act in Vermont. 1793. First Massachusetts Settlement Act. 1796. First Connecticut Settlement Act.
1796. First Settlement Act in New Hampshire. 1817. First Vermont Settlement Act.
1821. First Settlement Act in Maine.
Act of Settlement, see Settlement Bernardston, Mass., warning out Act.
Adams, Samuel, admitted, 36. Admission of inhabitants, see In- habitancy.
Aldrich, Levi, constable at Little- ton, N.H., 95. "Allotters," meaning of, 19. Alstead, N.H., warning out in, 1, 98.
Andover, Mass., admission and
inhabitancy in, 37.
Antrim, N.H., warning out in, 97. Aquidneck, R.I., town compact of,
Articles of Confederation of 1672 recognize right of towns to warn out, 49, 114. Aspewall, William, fined, 20. Attleboro, Mass. (1697), vote as to warning out, 57.
Average wealth of well-to-do people prior to 1800, 120, 121. Avoidance of effect of warning out, 116, 117.
Bale, Frances, fined, 41. Balstone, William, 20. Barrill, George, cooper, 21. Barron, Jonathan, selectman of Rockingham, Vt., 2. Beamsle(a)y, William, 25. Belfast, Me., warning out in, 102. Bellingham, Richard, bondsman, 23.
Bellows, Fanny A., daughter;
George and Henry Adams, sons; Mary, wife of Joseph Bellows, 2, 3.
Bellows, Joseph, and Joseph, and family, warned out, 2, 3.
Bellows Falls, Vt., 112. Bennett, John, 86.
Benton, Jacob, and family, warned out, 1-3.
Benton, Hannah, wife; Jacob, Jr., Reynold, and Samuel, sons; Mabel and Mary, daughters of Jacob Benton, 1, 2.
cases in 1790, 62.
Bill, Dorothie, a widowe, 21. Billerica, Mass., admission inhabitancy in, 35. Bird, Thomas, 40. Black, Mr.
warned out, 27.
Blague, Henry (or William), bonds- man, 24.
Blesdale, Elizabeth, admitted, 25. Blore, Jeams, warned out, 84. Boston, Mass.: admission upon se-
curity, 23; allotments to new- comers and conditions of inhabi- tancy, 19-21; church relations of early settlers, 22; fines im- posed for entertaining persons without consent of town, 23, 24; first case on record of support of persons admitted, 24; general order (1659) concerning enter- tainment of persons not ad- mitted as inhabitants, 25; liabil- ity of town for support of persons admitted, 21; right of common- age restricted (May 18, 1648), 10; strangers to be reported to selectmen within 8 days, 22,
Bracton quoted, 5, 6.
Bradford, William, and associates, receive grant of New Plymouth, 17.
Bradice, Ralph, admitted, 40. Braintree, Mass., inhabitancy and warning out in, 34. Bridge, John, 61.
Bridgewater, Mass., custom of
warning out in, 62. Bridgman, James, 41. Brooks, Joe, 85.
Brooks, Simon, Jr., selectman of Alstead, N.H., 2.
Brown, Daniel, constable at Lex- ington, Mass., 61.
Brown, John, warned out, 43. Bruff, William, admitted, 23. Bullock, Henry, 29. Burges, Francis, 23.
Burrill, George, cooper, fined, 24.
Cabot, John and Sebastian, dis- covery of North America (1497), 12, 14; receive English royal grants in 1495, 14. Cambridge, then Newtowne, ad- mission to inhabitancy, etc., 30- 32.
Camden, Me., warning out in, 103. Canton, Mass., on warning out, 58. Castine, Me., warning out in, 103. "Caution," meaning of, 60. Chapin, Henry, 28. Chapin, Josiah, 28. Chapin,, deacon, 28. Charles I, grants Massachusetts Bay charter, 17; grants New Plymouth charter, 17. Charlestown, Mass., admission to inhabitancy and entertainment of strangers in, 29.
Charlton, Robert, selectman of Littleton, N.H., 96. Chelmsford, Mass., inhabitancy in, 35, 36.
Cheney, William, bondsman, 43. Child, Saml,
caution entered
against, 60. Chronological table, 122. Chub, Mercy, warned out, 42. Chub, Thomas, of Beuerlee, 42. Church communion and right to
vote in Massachusetts Colony, 8. Church relations of early settlers, 22.
Cole, Samuell, fined, 20. Collins, the widow, 39, 40. Colony and Province of Providence, see Rhode Island. Colored persons, Connecticut Act
to prevent the setting up of schools for the instruction of, 81. Commonage, right of, and re- strictions, 10.
Connecticut: Act against colored schools, 81; admission upon surety in, 87; and Indian land titles, 13; colony law (1659) on restraint of alienation of lands to strangers, and warning out, 18, 114, 115; first warning out law (1673), 65; franchise in, 8; granted in 1630 to Robert, Earl of Warwick, 17; history of land titles in, 11, 12; in-
habitancy and warning out in, 63-87, 114-115; Settlement Act (1796), 74-80, 115; provisions of Act now in force, 82. Cononicus and Miontinomi, Indian chiefs, 99.
Cook, Sarah, caution entered against, 60.
Corbee, Goodman, 84. Cornnell, Thomas, 20. Cornwall, Vt., custom of warning out, 111.
Council, The, established at Plym- outh, in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, and Governing of New England in America, 16, 17. Crowe, Mr.
at Yarmouth, 44. Crown grants and land titles, 11,
12. Culberson, Jean, warned out, 96. Cullymore, Isaacke, carpenter, fined, 20.
Cunningham, Thomas, selectman of Peterboro, N.H., 96. Curtice, Isack, 85.
Curtice, Richard, 40.
Cutting, Daniel, and wife, caution entered against, 60.
Dauenport, -, Lieft:, mentioned,
32. Davis, Elias, warned out, 103. Davis, John, 35.
Dedham, Mass., inhabitancy and warning out in, 32, 33; land controversy with Indians, 12, 13. Deerfield, Mass., inhabitancy in, 56. District of Maine, see Maine. Dix, Edmand, caution entered against, 61.
Dorchester, Mass., inhabitancy
conditions in, 38-43; restriction of right of commonage, 10, 11. Doten, Zepheniah, and family, warned out, 45.
Dudley, Mass., records on warning out, 58.
Durham, Me., warning out in,
Duxbury, Mass., inhabitancy con- ditions in, 43.
Dyer, Paul, warned out, 103.
Early colony and state laws as to inhabitancy and warning out in Connecticut, 63-83; Maine, 104-106; Massachusetts, 46–53; New Hampshire, 88-95; Plym- outh Colony, 53–55; Rhode Isl- and, 99-101; Vermont, 106-110. Eaton, of Thomaston, Me., state-
ment by, 102, 103. "Eaton's Code" (1655) and pro- visions as to inhabitancy, 87. Effect of warning out, how avoided, 116, 117.
Eives, Joseph, 85.
Ellens, Danil, 41.
Ely, Samuel, admitted, 28. Endecott, John, charter member of the Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, 17.
Enfield, Conn., order regarding sale of land, 84.
England, admission to inhabitancy on same conditions as in New England, 26, note*; legal in- habitancy in, 9; poor relief in medieval, 7, 8.
English: civil institutions and law, basis of, 6; common law and warning out in New England, 4, 5; local and municipal devel- opment traced, 6, 7, Estabrook, Capt. Joseph, 60. Everson, John, warned out, 37. Examples of warning out, see Warning out.
Exeter, N.H., on inhabitancy, 88; practice of warning out in, 97, 98.
Alstead, N.H., 2. "Followers," meaning of, 6. Foote, Good", admitted, 85. Ford, Timothy, admitted, 29. Foreigners and inhabitancy in Con- necticut, 78.
Foule, Thomas, admitted, 21. "Frankpledge," meaning of, 5, 6. Free fishing and fowling, right of, 10. Freedom of the community, see Inhabitancy.
Fryar, Nat., bondsman, 24. Fundamental articles of agreement in Woodbury, Conn., 86. "Fundamentals," The, so called, of Connecticut, 63, 64. Funnell, Mrs.
Garish, Nathaniel, selectman of Durham, Me., 104.
Gates, Sir Thomas, and others, re- ceive patent for Colony of Vir- ginia, 16.
General Court of the Massachusetts Colony, orders and laws of the, regarding inhabitancy and warn- ing out, 46-52. Generall Lawes & Liberties of the Province of New Hampshire (1678) on the exclusion of strangers, 88.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 12, 14; receives patent from Queen Eliz- abeth, 15; takes possession of Newfoundland, 15.
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