Hello, I "inherited" a set of the Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia, which I like for its simplicity. The Colonial Life section states The dominant people entering from Maine to Georgia were English. Puritans settled New England. Quakers settled Pennsylvania. New York (New Netherland) was founded by the Dutch.. Between 1700 and 1776, thousands of Germans settled along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Huguenots (French Protestants who were badly treated at home) came into South Carolina and New Rochelle, New York. The Irish from southern Ireland and the Scotch-Irish from northern Ireland came in great numbers, especially after 1700, setted usually on the frontiers of all the colonies, particularly in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. Swedes and Finns settled in Delaware and made homes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Swiss settled mainly in South Carolina. Jewish people were soon found in nearly all the colonies, particularly in the larger towns. Negro slaves were brought into all the colonies and made up a large percentage of the population in the South. The Social Levels were 1) important royal officials, great landowners, wealthy merchants, and leading professional men; 2) clergymen, less important merchants, professional men, and landowners; 3) freehold farmers, shopkeepers, and artisans; 4) unskilled laborers; 5) indentured servants; 6) slaves. I THINK "freehold" means ones who LIVE on their own farm property. ? as opposed to "tenant" farmers ? Best regards, gmw