In the northern colonies, the area known today as New England, Puritan families settled in small towns. They came hoping to work their way up, from a servant controlled by masters to an independent farmer or merchant. They arrived as servants indentured to a small community of wealthy people who wanted cheap labor to grow tobacco on their plantations. In the southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas, most of the white colonists were young poor people. The history of the early English colonies in North America can be divided into two familiar stories. Henry Popple, A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto, 1734.
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