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Unwelcome Americans : living on the margin in early New England

This book tells the stories of forty New Englanders who were forced ('warned out') to leave various communities in Rhode Island. Their stories are typical of what happened to the poor, homeless, and vagrant in other New England communities in the 18th century
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2001
Biography
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780812217650, 9780812235920, 0812217659, 0812235924
45087322
Birth, infancy, and childhood. Phebe Perkins
Anthony Hathaway
Kate Jones
Susannah Guinea
Jerusha Townsend
Susannah, James, John, and Isabel Brown. Family life. Clarke, William, and Sanford Pike
Patience and Abner Butler
Judah Hazard Wanton
Mary Cummock Fowler and Mary Fowler Champlin
Sarah Gardner and her daughters
Wait Godfrey alias Whitney alias Grafft
Christopher Stocker and Abigail Harris
Nathaniel Whitaker
Robert Fuller's family
Thomas Field. Work life. Phillis Merritt Wanton
Mary Carder
Olive Pero
Elizabeth and Molly Hodges
Cato Freeman
Mark Noble
Peter Norton
John Treby
Nathaniel Bowdish. Reversal of fortune. Patience Havens and her daughters
Elizabeth Springer
Primus Thompson
Benjamin Jones
Ann West and Peter West
Esther Heradon
Margaret Fairchild Bowler
Benjamin Champney
Jacob Burke. Old age and death. Daniel Collins
Obadiah Blanding
Latham Clarke
Abigail Hull Carr
Elizabeth Stonehouse
Bristol Rhodes. Constructing a transient s life