In a message dated 8/7/99 5:17:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Odd that the English settlers of New England laid the foundation for our > freedoms while banishing or burning those who worshipped differently, while > those in Virginia and the Carolinas and most especially those in Maryland > were hardly worthy of mention. Hi Joyce again! There must be some confusion as to the book under discussion. You say that the book by Fischer "hardly" mentions the English settlers of VA, MD and the Carolinas. But the extremely excellent book I was talking about, which is the paperback version (1994) of "Albion's Seed," by David Hackett Fischer, devotes approximately one-fourth of its space to the English settlers of Virginia and Maryland. In fact, Fischer hails originally from Maryland's Eastern Shore, and he devotes quite a bit of discussion to his Maryland homeland. Approximately another fourth of the book is devoted to the "borderers" (which includes the Scotch-Irish), though the number of pages here is slightly less than in the section on the Southern English. Finally, the New England Puritans and the Delaware Valley Quakers also get about one-fourth each of the book. So I guess you and I have read different books. I am still eager to read the review(s) by the critic(s) that didn't like the book. So if you or anybody else can recall his or her name(s), please be sure to pass it along. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Jim Brown ([email protected])