Robert Love's Warnings

Cornelia H. Dayton is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and author of Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Sharon V. Salinger is Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 and Taverns and Drinking in Early America.

Prologue. A Walking Day Introduction Chapter 1. Mr. Love's Mission Chapter 2. The Warner Chapter 3. Origins Chapter 4. Walking and Warning Chapter 5. The Warned and Why They Came Interlude. A Sojourner's Arrival Chapter 6. Lodgings Chapter 7. Sojourners of the Respectable Sort Chapter 8. Travelers in Distress Chapter 9. Warning in the Midst of Imperial Crises Epilogue Appendix A. Traveling Parties and Locations They Were "Last From" Appendix B. Sources for Robert Love's Warning Records, by Date List of Abbreviations Notes Index

"The extent and depth of research found in Dayton and Salinger's book is impressive and the work itself engaging. . . . Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston is an insightful examination of the New England practice of warning and offers a rich social history of mid-eighteenth-century Boston."-American Historical Review "Dayton and Salinger, two very distinguished historians, challenge much of the conventional scholarly understanding. . . . This marvelous book deepens and broadens historians' knowledge in significant ways. It is also beautifully written. It reshapes our conceptions and makes us ask new questions about Boston, New England, and early America in general. It is hard to ask much more of any book."-William and Mary Quarterly "My admiration for what the authors have done in Robert Love's Warnings grew with each chapter. They have made the streets of colonial Boston come alive in ways no other scholar has done. And their achievement in research is simply amazing. . . . What a book!"-Alfred F. Young, author of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution