We met other second-generation settlers who had none of the fire-and-brimstone fury of their parent's generation.
The first generation of settlers, generally thought to be those that arrived before 1627, called themselves the "Old Comers" or "Planters".
Not only had they become, over the years, less pious than the first generation of settlers; they had also failed to convert the Indians to Christianity.
The filmmaker used period-appropriate language and worked to recreate the material reality that confronted the first generation of settlers.
Among them are many who see the world in different terms than their parents ever did, and many who lack the stern intractability of the first generation of settlers they are slowly, surely replacing.
The European settlers were in vast majority men, and mating between Spanish men and Native American women was not uncommon during the first generations of settlers [ 7].
His father was only a farmer and shoemaker, but the Adams family could trace its lineage back to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England.
The first generation of white settlers or prisoners -- convicts and their keepers -- were equally trapped in a system of pointless cruelty and retribution.
Few new settlements were constructed, but all the existing settlements underwent consolidation and expansion as new neighborhoods were built, new settlers arrived, and a second generation of settler families grew up and made their homes in these places.
Accelerated soil erosion, including rampaging gulleys and disfiguring landslips, were noted by the first generations of European settlers in the southeastern colonies.
