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This term, "warned out", is new to me. What does it mean?
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Lots of people were not familiar with the term "warned-out" so maybe I can
explain. 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, For Vermont the legal residence was
either the town you where you were born or where you owned property. In
Vermont, 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 warned-out did not
actually leave the town in question. Other times they might have been forcibly
removed. These legal notices are used by genealogists to follow people who
didn't leave other traces like census records or deeds of land purchases. Often
they were on the margins of society and harder to trace, hence the usefulness of
records of warnings-out. The warning-out laws were changed in Vermont around
1820. Hope that helps.
Jay