My purpose in writing this is not to persuade children to leave their parents, men to leave
their wives; or, servants to leave their masters.
People should be willing to come to this land.
Each parish church or village, in the city or
countryside, should send thirteen or fourteen
year old orphan children and young married
people to New England. Here they can work
and make out very well provided that there are
leaders to govern them. There should also be
houses for them and means to defend them.
They should be assigned to work as servants
for carpenters, brick masons, fishermen,
and other skilled men so that they will learn
a trade. These skilled masters can each take
ten, twelve, or twenty young people to work
for them and in this way they will quickly grow
rich. The workers will also learn a trade and
will, in time, also grow rich. This will help the
King, England, the masters, and also the
servants.
What does the writer want to happen?