re: #58 Earick

Uh, unless you are of advanced years, I think you’re a generation short there. My great-great grandfather was born in 1828 and got off the boast here in 1851.

Second, unless your ancestor was the village idiot, nearly all the Colonists thought of themselves as Englishmen and were supposed to be treated as such by the King and Parliament; they all had an understanding of their rights. They were all products of the tumultuous 17th century in England which saw two revolutions, a dictatorship and a regicide. The colonists’ ancestors came here to escape the religious stranglehold of the C of E and the intolerance of same. In short, the knew what they were fighting for.