Convicts Food Convicts ate bread,hardtack,salted beef or pork,peas,oatmeal,butter,cheese. They also ate rise,fruit,vegetables.
A major force within the colonies was the squatocracy--the rich officers and settlers a. k. a. opportunists who had followed the explorers into fertile hinterlands. They simply laid claim to or squatted upon enormous tracts of land, often 20,000 acres and more. Free for all, mate with ...