ABSTRACT
Virginia had begun with the establishment of Jamestown and the beginnings of a glass works, but the inducement of land grants and the gradual receding of the frontier caused settlers to move farther into the piedmont, away from the fortified towns and churches, inhibiting the growth of towns and repressing manufacturing. The first homes were burrows dug into hillsides; “thus these poore servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves, their Wives and their little ones, keeping off the short showers from their Lodgings, but the long raines penetrate through, to their great disturbance in the night season.” The “New-England Plantation” in Massachusetts was originally clustered tightly in a small geographical area by necessity for protection and to encourage godly ways. Gradually, however, new settlements were founded to the west, colonized by the established seaboard communities.
