Act of Settlement, see Settlement

Act.

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,
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.

Bernardston, Mass., warning out

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.

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, Sam!, 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

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
mediæval, 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.

First Settlement Act, see Settle-
ment Act.

First warning out Act in New
Hampshire (1718), 89; in Ver-
mont (1787), 106, 107.
First warning out law in Con-
necticut (1673), 65; in Plym-
outh Colony (1671), 59.
First warning out statute in Mas-
sachusetts (1692), 51.
Fletcher, Timo., selectman
Alstead, N.H., 2.
"Followers," meaning of, 6.
Foote, Good", admitted, 85.
Ford, Timothy, admitted, 29.
Foreigners and inhabitancy in Con-
necticut, 78.

of

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
(1638) on the exclusion of
strangers, 88.

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 12, 14;
receives patent from Queen Eliz-
abeth, 15; takes possession of
Newfoundland, 15.

32.

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 16.

Gorham, Me., warning out in, 102.
Gornell, John, bondsman, 40.
Gosnold visits Massachusetts Bay
(1602), 15.

Governor and Company of the
Massachusetts Bay in Newe-
England, 17.

Grants of land by towns, 18.
Greene, Peter, 41.
Greenefield, Mr. · 20.

Greenfield, Mass., warning out
cases in, 62.

Gregg, Hugh, selectman of Peter-
boro, N.H., 96.

Groton, Mass., inhabitancy and
warning out in, 33.

Guilford, Conn., decision on sale
or purchase of land, 84.
Gunn, Thomas, 86.

Haddam, Conn., warning out in,

84.

Hadley, Mass., inhabitancy and

warning out in, 37.

Hall, Isaac, 28.

Harmon, Daniel,

Daniel, of Standish,

warned out, 103.
Hart, John, fined, 24.
Hartford, Conn., orders as to re-

ceiving or warning out new-
comers, 83.

Hartford, Vt., practice of warning
out in, 111.

Harvard, John, and others, ad-
mitted as inhabitants in Charles-
town, 29.

Harwood, Thomas, bondsman, 23.
Hatch, Ansal, selectman of Little-
ton, N.H., 96.

Haverhill, Mass., all new-comers
warned out in, 60.
Hayden, William, 86.

Heard, Edmund, and family,
warned out, 2, 3.

Henniker, N.H., warning out in,
96.

Henry, John, 56.

Hickock, Nath'l, 85.

Hims,,widdow, warned out, 40.
Hodge, Ann, caution entered
against, 61.

sion, 32.

Holyoke, Elizur, bondsman, 28.
House ownership very desirable for
admission to inhabitancy, 22.
Howes, Mr.
committeeman

of Yarmouth, 44.
Hoyden, James, admitted, 29.
Hudson, Charles, statement as to
warning out in Lexington, Mass.,
60-62.

Hudson, William, fined, 20.
Hull, Elizabeth, wife of Roberte
Hull, 22.

Hull, Richard, carpenter, 20.
Hutchinson, Ralph, fined, 24.
Hutchinson, Richard, warned out,
61.

Illustrations of warning out, see
Warning out.

Immigration into New England,
a cause of the warning out
practice, 121.

Indian deeds and original land
titles, 12, 13; wars (1675) and
warning out, 50.

Inhabitancy: and warning out, 8;
conditions of admission to, 18, 19;
early colony and state laws, 46-
55, 63-83, 88-95, 99-101, 104-
110; historic basis of, 5; implies
right to lands and commonage,
10; legal, in England, 9; right
and obligations of, in Boston,
19-23; Connecticut, 63-87;
Maine, 101-106; Massachusetts
towns, outside of Boston, 26–37;
New England, 4-19; New
Hampshire, 88-98; Plymouth
Colony, 37-46; Rhode Island,
99-101; Vermont, 101-113.
Inhabitants of other States than
Connecticut, statutes concerning
admission of, 78-82.

Jackson, John, fined, 43.
James I, gives Virginia patent
(1602), 16; charter to "The
Council established at Plymouth,
in the County of Devon, for the
Planting, Ruling, and Govern-
ing of New England in America"
(1620), 16.

Lancaster, Mass., cases of warning
out in 1791, 2, 3; forms of warn-
ing out used in 1671, 56; in-
habitancy and warning out, 33.
Land, restraint of alienation of,
18, 19.

Land ownership and inhabitancy
in New England, 11.

Land titles in New England, origin
of, 10-17.

Lane, Op'tunitie Lane, 43.
Langham, Mary, 24.

Length of time warning out was
effective and practised, 114-116,
120.

Lewes, John, fined, 23.

Lexington, Mass., warning out in, 60.
Littleton, N.H., practice of warning
out in, 95, 96.

Long, Joseph, 40.

Lyall, Francis, admitted, 20.

Lynn, Mass., orders of warning
out in, 59.

Lyon, Petter, 41.

MacKentiah, Martha, of Reading,
warned out, 58.
Mackintosh, Archable, and family,
warned out, 61.

Mackreth, Reginald, from Liver-
pool in Nova Scotia, warned
out, 45.

Mahoney, Mrs. ——, and child,
warned out, 59.

Mahoone, Derman, fined, 24, 25.
Maine: and land titles, 14; Con-
stitution of, October 29, 1819,
104; Settlement Act (1821), 104,
105, 115; town settlement, in-
habitancy, relief of poor and
warning out in, 101-106, 115.

March, Abigail, Hannah, Prudence,
and Sarah, children of Samuel
and Tabatha March, 112.
March, Samuel, wife and children,
warned out, 112, 113.

March, Tabatha, wife of Samuel
March, 112, 113.
Marcy, Moses, Esq., 60.
Marshfield, Mass. (1664), on in-
habitancy and warning out, 55.
Marten, Thomas, warned out, 84.
Mason, Captain John, 16; vested
rights of, 14.

Massachusetts: early colony and
state laws regarding inhabitancy
and warning out, 46-53; first
warning out statute (1692), 51,
114; Settlement Act (1793), 55,
114; warning out cases in 1794,
52, 53, 114.

Massachusetts Bay charter granted
by Charles I (1629), 17.
Massachusetts Colony, right of
voting in, 8, 9.

Mawer, William, 20.

Maxfild, Clement and John, 39.
Maynard, John, and family,
warned out, 2, 3.

Medfield, Mass., inhabitancy and
warning out in, 34.

Medford, Mass., custom of warn-
ing out in, 57.

Me(i)lton, Mass., mentioned, 40,
41.

Merrifeild, Henery, 41, 42.
Merrye, Water, 22.

Middleboro, Mass., inhabitancy
conditions in, 38.
Miller, Simon, 86.

Ministers, settlement of settled and
ordained, in Maine Act of Settle-
ment, 105; in Massachusetts
Act, 53, 116, 117.

Miontinomi, see Cononicus.
Morgan, Quartus, selectman of
Rockingham, Vt., 113.
Morse, John, admitted, 29.
Moses, John, 85, 86.

Muddy River, 21; (Brookline) a
"peculiar," 49, note *.