CONVERSE SURNAMES
IN
"VERMONT WARNINGS OUT"

Alden M. Rollins, Vol. 1-2, Picton Press

Thanks to Jay Cary for abstracting the Converse names from this publication.
Jay describes the "Warnings Out":
Below is a list of Converse/Convers people who were warned out of Vermont towns in the period 1768 to 1818. This is all the information this book gives. Many of the original records are on microfilm and Rollins recommends that researchers check the original records. In early Vermont, all people who were not able to take care of themselves because of poverty, illness or the like became the responsibility of the town in which they had legal residence. In Vermont the legal residence was either the town where you were born or where you owned property. If a non-legal resident came into town the authorities had usually one year to warn the person that they were not legal residents and that they should leave town and could not expect the town to support them in any way. This became a legal record of the town where these people were residing, but were not legal residents and counted on a census. Often the people who were warned out did not actually leave the town in question. Other times they might have been forcibly removed. The "warnings out" laws were changed in Vermont around 1820.

GIVEN NAME		DATE	TOWN	SOURCE	PAGE

Barnard	and family	22 Jun 1814	Bridport	Town Records	Vol 3 p 167
Barnard	wife and family	18 Jan 1814	Burlington	Town Meetings	Vol 1 p 444
Calvin	living with Amos Stone	2 Apr 1817	New Haven	Town Records	Vol 7 p 175
Charles		1 Apr 1816	Newfane	Town Records	Vol 1 p 310
Hannah (widow)	with son James	23 Aug 1808	Orange	Town Records	Vol 1 p 138
Hannah		13 Mar 1810	Plainfield	Town Records	Vol 1 p 77
Ira		29 Dec 1815	Grafton	Town Records	Vol 1 p 399
Isreal	and family	17 Jan 1814	Strafford	Deeds	Vol 4 p 382
James	wife and child	25 Mar 1812	Montgomery	Town Records	vol 1 p 66
Joseph	wife Lucy and children	22 Mar 1814	Newfane	Town Records	Vol 1 p 268
Lucinda (single)	living with Amos Stone	2 Apr 1817	New Haven	Town Records	Vol 7 p 175
Olive (widow)	and family	23 May1816	Grand Isle	Town Records	Vol 1 p 154
Prudence		6 Jan 1815	Brookfield	Town Records	Vol 2 p 195
Prudy		29 Nov 1809	Braintree	Vital Records	Vol 2 p125

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