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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.

CHRONOLOGY.

1497. Cabots' Discovery of North America. Gilbert's Possession of Newfoundland.

1583.

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.

INDEX.

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,

99.

Arnoll, Edw., 22.

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.

to

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,

23.

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.

committeeman

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,

103.

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.

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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.

Galloppe, John, 20.

41, 42.

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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