Lands that were not cultivated by the proprietor within a limited time were declared grantable to any other person.

In Pennsylvania there was no right of primogeniture, and in the provinces of New England the eldest had only a double share.

There were no tithes in any of the States, and scarcely any taxes.

And on account of the extreme cheapness of good land a capital could not be more advantageously employed than in agriculture, which at the same time that it supplies the greatest quantity of healthy work affords much the most valuable produce to the society.
The consequence of these favourable circumstances united was a rapidity of increase probably without parallel in history.

Throughout all the northern colonies, the population was found to double itself in twenty-five years.