Show Professor Gives Jolt Joll to Colonial History The bunk In Colonial 11 history It 0 1 as taught to young oung Americans and remembered remembered re re- by b older Americans Is isolated Isolated Isolated Iso Iso- by h Harold arold U. U Faulkner associate associate associate ate professor profesor of or history at nt Smith col col- lege Professor ProCessor Faulkner says sats the tho Pittsburgh Gazette Garette Times makes th the tho following points am among ng man many others One of the most Important bits of action regarding the Old Dominion Is that a n goodly proportion of Its wealthy wealth families emanated from the nobility of England and came to Virginia In the years ears after the decapitation of Charles I. I As a matter of ot fact the Virginian aristocracy developed eloped almost entirely entire within the colony and the larger part of It was derived from the English merchant class The Colonial Virginia stock was In fact primarily recruited from Crom the lower lower lower low low- er middle and poorer classes In Eng Eng- England those land land those groups roUlS whose economic position at home was hopeless The matter of the origin and composition composition com com- composition position of the Virginian people brings I up the whole question of Colonial pop pop- i F From om the pride with which 1 the Colonial Dames and antl other descendants descendants descend descend- ants of the early settlers point to their ancestors one would suppose that the they were supermen the ne plus ultra of European society On the contrary a majority belonged belonged belonged be be- longed to the class at home who were economically beaten heaten or who were per persecuted persecuted persecuted for religious or political br fiefs Relatively few Immigrants who were economically Independent cameto came camo I to America of their their own Initiative durIng durIng dur duro Ing the the- Colonial period Although Virginia was unfortunate In Its Immigrants It was uns wn not alone North Carolina and Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land received a considerable addition n nto to their population from Indentured servants who had served their time In Virginia and pushed on to the frontiers fron fran frontiers tiers to take up land or from runan runaway runaway runa runa- n way servants ser and criminals of that colony |