Cover image for Robert Love's warnings : searching for strangers in colonial Boston
Title:
Robert Love's warnings : searching for strangers in colonial Boston
Author:
Dayton, Cornelia Hughes.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

©2014
Physical Description:
xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary:
Recounts the "warnings out" delivered by Robert Love in Boston to some four thousand itinerants, including youthful migrant workers, demobilized British soldiers, recently exiled Acadians, and women following the redcoats who occupied Boston in 1768. Love kept meticulous records of the sojourners he spoke to, including where they lodged and whether they were lame, ragged, drunk, impudent, homeless, or begging. Through these documents, the authors reconstruct the biographies of travelers, exploring why so many people were on the move throughout the British Atlantic and why they came to Boston.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mr. Love's mission -- Warner -- Origins -- Walking and warning -- Warned and why they came -- A sojourner's arrival -- Lodgings -- Sojourners of the respectable sort -- Travelers in distress -- Warning in the midst of imperial crises --
ISBN:
9780812245936
Format :
Book