Were the first British settlers in the Americas intelligent?

This is a very close issue. The question of whether the first British settlers were free and intelligent is a highly debatable one. About the only thing I can say for sure is that they certainly felt as if they were free and intelligent. They felt that they were the people who were being oppressed by the “evil” British and that they needed to move to America to escape this persecution. However, some of their …

…few untouched places in the world where they could start anew and spread the beliefs of Christianity. However, it is for exactly these reasons that I condemn it. I think that they just were greedy and really rushed into something unprepared, which is why so many died those first winters, and had they prepared then they might have been enlightened. That is how I feel on whether the first British settlers are enlightened or not.