ABSTRACT
The European men and women who came to North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not expect, or want, things to be different in these new homes precariously perched on the western edge of the Atlantic world. They yearned to recreate the familiar. They brought with them decided ideas about proper personal behavior and social mores, but they could not anticipate what starting a European outpost in this new world (as it was to them) would be like, much less replicate their old ways in it.
