Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.