Warning out of town was a widespread method in the United States for established New England communities to pressure or coerce "outsiders" to settle elsewhere.
[2] The first warning out in Plymouth Colony was recorded on June 6, 1654, in the village of Rehoboth.
[3] Robert Titus was called into town court and told to take his family out of Plymouth Colony for allowing "persons of evil fame" to live in his home.
[5] The practice of warning out replaced an earlier practice in which admission to a town as an inhabitant, or purchase of property within a town, required a vote of the present inhabitants or the Board of Selectmen.
[7] Sometimes, there was a time limit by which, if a resident had not been warned, they would automatically become an inhabitant.