English ancestral homes of the founders of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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The English Ancestral Homes Of The Founders Of Cambridge
Submitted by proceedings-ken on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 11:26am
Author:  J. Gardner Bartlett
Volume:  14
Pages:  79-103
Years:  1919
Copyright:  1926
Publishers:  Cambridge Historical Society

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About ninety per cent of the founders of New England were of the best class of the English yeomanry; no peers or sons of peers, no baronets or sons of baronets, and but two knights, settled in New England; less than ten per cent were of the landed, mercantile or professional gentry; and only a little over one per cent have been proved to be of strictly armorial families; on the other hand, the proportion of scoundrels was small. Thus, although it is true that our ancestors in New England were strict in social distinctions, even in small country towns the people being seated in church according to their social position, nevertheless the range in rank was not very great from the landed and mercantile gentry down through the clergy, yeomanry, husbandmen and artisans to the laborers, these classes insensibly grading into each other down the scale. So, in a democratic community of equal opportunity, in the course of two or three generations, the bulk of the population of New England became welded together in a homogeneous stock of superior average worth, some of the great-grandchildren of armorial emigrants, like Saltonstall, Leete, Winthrop, Dudley, Bulkeley, Bruen, Cotton, Appleton, Chauncey, Chester, Talcott, Haynes, etc., having married into families who had risen in position, descendants of emigrants of the yeoman or the artisan classes.

Let us now return to our 25,000 early emigrants to New England. Of these, about 5,000 persons were the original male progenitor heads of families; the remaining 20,000 souls were their wives, children, and grandchildren whom they brought with them. We are therefore concerned with the subject of locating in England a few of the 5,000 male progenitor heads of New England families, of whom about 4,500 were of yeoman or artisan rank, about 500 were of the landed, mercantile or professional gentry, and less than sixty have been proved to be of strictly armigerous families. ....

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