Instructing Cambridge Constable Samuel Champney That Christopher Dyer And His Family Who Moved

by Andrew Ii Bordman

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Docketed verso and signed by Champney on May 4th 1716, “I addressed … said Christopher Dyer with his wife and family forthwith to remove out of said town of Cambridge”; also with a note, signed by Bordman, that the Select Men have issued such as caution. “Warning out of town was a widespread method in the United State for established New England communities to pressure or coerce ‘outsiders’ to settle elsewhere. It consisted of a notice

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