Analyze The Contributions Of Gabriel Thomas Dbq

Pennsylvania had rich soil and a great climate which attracted many people lead farmers to make more profit for their produce and helped them afford greater wages for their employers than anywhere else, the poor had better opportunities and received better pay, they had a chance to have a better life, there was a policy of toleration as well, indentured servants were not permanently bound, it was overwhelmingly rural, and everything was sold much cheaper. (Source 1, p.42) Gabriel Thomas, a Welsh yeoman farmer who spent fifteen years in Pennsylvania before departing for England. In 1706, he returned to Sussex County near Philadelphia, where he owned a thousand-acre plantation. Note the reasons he thought that conditions were better in Pennsylvania than inn England or wales. To me I think that I could answer that question easily because corn, flesh and food were much …show more content…
It seems like he was sharing his own experience and that that might be why it made him who he was and became a drunkard and a thief and had different point of view about colonial Pennsylvania. Gabriel Thomas and William Moraley had different point of views on Pennsylvania. One describes how well you can do even if you were poor and get things for less money like corn, food, bigger plantations and better climate. Moraley in the other hand he shares the life of slaves and servants and perhaps shares his own bad experience in colonial Pennsylvania. People in the past saw things differently as everyone might have different views about whether Pennsylvania was or not once the best poor man’s country in the world but it doesn’t mean we are necessarily