If it be asked why they have received no glory as pioneers. the answer must be that they were a simple folk. coming here to get a livelihood. bringing with then no such strength of character and no such moral purpose as enabled the Puritans to make their indelible impress on the Institutions of America andino such high spirit and aristocratic tradition as made the founders of Virginia leaders in the southern part of what became the United States. It was to be the lot of Maine that not. only her first settlers but also those who for 200 .years attacked her pine forests and wrestled with her stony hillsides should be plain people of the sort that make up the great mass of mankind. After the Revolutionary.War settlers emigrated to Maine in great numbers. Naturally they- had little of worldly estate. For the most part they carried with them nothing but a few homely utensils and were accompanied or soon surrounded by large flocks of hungry children.
Identified stereotypes
Settlers are described as simple folk lacking the strength of character and moral purpose of other groups.