Most ranks of society and most professions were represented.

Many brought education, means, independent position.

Other honest men, chiefly young men with little in the purse, came over under indentures, bound for a specified term of years to settlers of larger means.

These indentured men are numerous; and when they have worked out their indebtedness they will take up land of their own.
An old suggestion of Dale's now for the first time bore fruit.

Over the protest of the "country party" in the Company, there began to be sent each year out of the King's gaols a number, though not at any time a large number, of men under conviction for various crimes.