Are Your Pens Yet Again Ready?

About 540,000 people emigrated from England during this period. Emigration was concentrated in the period 1628 to 1640. For many it wasn't about being well-heeled and being healed with gold. It was an opportunity to escape a life of grinding poverty. The timing of the migration to New England is also of interest. But I'll start by trying to sketch out a super brief history of North America before colonisation.