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Originally Posted by limey
Except
1) the Protestant fathers who were forced to leave England in order to have the freedom to practice their religion; and
2) the Scottish crofters who were forced to leave their homes and often their native land by English landowners to make way for sheep-farming (I concede a lot of these went to Canada, and after 1776 ...)
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Well taken. My point was that the population wasn't made up entirely, or almost entirely, of convicted criminals.