William Sabin was born in Titchfield, Hampshire, England in 1609. His parents were Samuel Sabin and Elizabeth. He married Mary Wright. They emigrated sometime before 1642 and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. They had twelve children. Mary died in 1660. William married Martha Allen in 1663 and they had eight children. William died in 1686. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Nova Scotia and elsewhere.
William Story was born in about 1614 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He emigrated in 1637 and settled in Massachusetts. He married Sarah Foster (1620-1703), daughter of Renold Foster and Judith Wignol, in 1640 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Vermont, Indiana and Wisconsin.
The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.
William Story, the son of Robert Story, was born about 1614 in Norwich, County, Norfolk, England. William left Norwich, England, and arrived in Boston 8 June 1637. He married Sarah Foster about 1640. Sarah was born about 1620 in Bramton, England, and died after 9 June 1681. William died January 1702/03 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
John Cary, son of William of Bristol, was born near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England in 1610. He emigrated in 1634 and settled in Plymouth Colony. He married Elizabeth Godfrey. They had twelve children. Traces descendants through their son, John (1645-1721). He married Abigail Allen 7 December 1670 and they had eleven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Includes Beckwith, Booth, Hurd, Sabin, Wilcox and related families.
In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice and the religious and humanistic vision of those who enforced it. Historians Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger follow one otherwise obscure town clerk, Robert Love, as he walked through Boston's streets to tell sojourners, "in His Majesty's Name," that they were warned to depart the town in fourteen days. This declaration meant not that newcomers literally had to leave, but that they could not claim legal settlement or rely on town poor relief. Warned youths and adults could reside, work, marry, or buy a house in the city. If they became needy, their relief was paid for by the province treasurer. Warning thus functioned as a registration system, encouraging the flow of labor and protecting town coffers. Between 1765 and 1774, Robert Love warned four thousand itinerants, including youthful migrant workers, demobilized British soldiers, recently exiled Acadians, and women following the redcoats who occupied Boston in 1768. Appointed warner at age sixty-eight owing to his unusual capacity for remembering faces, 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, Dayton and Salinger reconstruct the biographies of travelers, exploring why so many people were on the move throughout the British Atlantic and why they came to Boston. With a fresh interpretation of the role that warning played in Boston's civic structure and street life, Robert Love's Warnings reveals the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New England in the decade before the Revolution.
