Todd,
Thanks for the kudos!

I've always found it interesting that many of those agitating for "revolution" at the time of the founding of the United States seem to have been millionaire land owners, shipping tycoons, and politically powerful lawyers/legislators. Now it is a matter of fact that from the establishment of the Jamestown Colony in 1608 until the Declaration of Independence in 1776 not a single gentleman in the whole of the North American colonies was elevated to the peerage, and only one (!) received a knighthood.

I can not help but wonder if a liberal sprinkling of coronets and k's (as was the case in Ireland during the same period) might not have forestalled the eventual rupture that occurred between the colonies and the Mother country?

And had the revolution failed, do you suppose that we would now be wringing our hands over the Great North American clearances? Perhaps from our home in Barbados or elsewhere in the Empire?

Scott