Life on the Colonies in the 1700s
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In 1700 the population of the North American colonies was about 250,000. By 1770, this figure had reached well over two million. About three fourths of this growth was due to natural increase and one fourth was due to immigration. During the seventeenth century many of the immigrants to the colonies had come from England. During the first seventy years of the eighteenth century, fewer came from England. Some were from northern Ireland, Africa, Germany and from Scotland. Smaller numbers came from many other European countries. This large number of immigrants from so many different countries gave the colonies a very different look than England, or any of the other places they had come from.
Even the colonists who came from England came from different parts of England. Although they all spoke English, they came from different levels of society, spoke with different accents, and brought with them a variety of customs, religions, and outlooks on life...