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people coming overwhelmingly from a relatively few locales to
particular parts of America. As the historian Bernard Bailyn writes
in his essay "Peopling the Peripheries," "In each of two short
peak periods of population movements from Britain to America,
1630-60 and 1760-76, the flow totaled close to a quarter of a million people."2 That was a huge increase for colonies whose nonIndian residents totaled in the low tens of thousands in the early
seventeenth century and not much more than two million in the
middle of the eighteenth. As a percentage of preexisting population, this influx dwarfs the rate of immigration into the United
States during the lifetime of any American now living.
In his endlessly fascinating book Albion's Seed, the historian
David Hackett Fischer recounts how the bulk of migrants into four
different parts of colonial America came disproportionately from
four different parts of the British Isles, each with distinctive folkways.3 The New England colonies were largely settled by Calvinist Protestants-Puritans, in common parlance-from the east of
England. The Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland were
settled in large part by Anglican squires and gentry younger sons,
and by much ruder folk coming often as indentured laborers,
from the west of England. Politics and religion, then very much
tied together, drove both these movements: the Puritans were
coming to get away from the government of King Charles I and
the church of Archbishop William Laud; the Anglicans were coming to get away from the republican government of the Puritan
Oliver Cromwell.
Fischer identifies two other sources of heavy migration. One
was from the North Midlands of England to the Delaware River
valley and the Pennsylvania colony founded by the Quaker William Penn in 1682; their numbers were augmented by Dutch and
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