Farmers, Craftsmen, and Merchants
High-level politicians gave out plots of land to male settlers who then divided the land among themselves. Every white man who was not an indentured servant was intended to have enough land to support a family.
Examples of primary sources archives and manuscript material
photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films
journals, letters and diaries
speeches
scrapbooks
published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time
government publications
oral histories
records of organizations
autobiographies and memoirs
printed ephemera