Frontiers Quotes
“Transported” meant they were convicted criminals in England who were sold into indentured servitude for a number of years. When their sentence was up, they became free but had no assets or land, so they went to the frontier and settled on land there which sometimes was Indian occupied land, but was more often Indian hunting land. This often caused friction between the new Americans and the Indians. The original criminal origin of these Americans was constantly views in a negative light by the upper class English (See {605546}.). He was the de facto Governor of the colony as there was no one senior to him on the American side of the Atlantic.