Everyday life in early America

About this book

TO HEAR the seventeenth century tell it, only the dregs came this way "unruly gallants packed thither by their friends to escape ill destines... condemned wretches, forfeited by law... strumpets and bawds, for the abomination of life spewed out to their country... poor gentlemen, broken tradesmen, rakes and libertines, footmen and such others fitter to spoil or ruin a commonwealth than to help to raise and maintain one"