Clean water & cooler temperatures stopped the spread of disease.
Settlers add 10 years
Average lifespan 70
Women:
married early & produced a baby every 2 years.
Invented "Grandparents"
Gave up property rights
Divorce was rare in cases of abandonment & adultery (Scarlet Letter)

Small towns due to
Indians
Geography
French & Dutch
Harvard College - 1936

New England......