17 posted on 09/21/2021 12:18:07 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
No, they were regular English criminals, whose death sentence was commuted to transportation to the colonies, to be sold there for a 7-year contract. Many of them got rather unpleasant work.
24 posted on 09/21/2021 2:09:26 PM PDT by proxy_user