I see you've been reading Richard Hofstadter. As he noted in America at 1750 (published posthumously),
An Englishman who traveled in America in the opening years of the nineteenth century noticed "many families, particularly in Pennsylvania, of great respectability both in our society and amongst others, who had themselves come over to this country as redemptioners [partial indentees], or were children of such."
What was true of the Pennsylvania interior in the Federal period had been true across the mountains in the Delaware and Susquehanna valleys 40 years earlier.
In the 17th and 18th centuries they mostly came for religious freedom, and to get out from under landlords and squirearchs and other squeezemeisters, and acquire real property of their own.
That's a name I haven't thought about in 40 years.
Never read “1750,” but I did read “The American Political Tradition” for a history class.
I also read “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” after college, but I can't recall a single word of the book.
I read through the Wiki biography.
Seems that Hofstadter started out as a Communist, then became center-left after enjoying considerable success as an author and speaker.
After the student riots at Columbia, he became something of a Neo-Con, which appears to be the time frame in which he wrote “1750.”