1. "[This colony] was for the most part at first peopled by persons of low circumstances.... Nor was it hardly possible it should be otherwise; for 'tis not likely that any man of a plentiful estate should voluntarily abandon a happy certainty to roam after imaginary advantages in a New World.
Besides which uncertainty, must have proposed to himself to encounter the infinite difficulties and dangers that attend a new settlement. These discouragements were sufficient to terrify any man that could live easy in England from going to... a strange land."
Robert Beverly, historian, The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705
Using the excerpt above, answer (a), (b), and (c).
(a) Briefly explain Robert Beverly's perspective in the excerpt.
(b) Briefly explain ONE example of historical evidence that supports
Beverly's position.
(c) Briefly explain ONE example of historical evidence that