Rise of the United Empire Loyalists - A Sketch of American History #250288

The motive which prompted the first settler to go from England to Virginia, as the northern division was called, was for commercial self-interest; the finding of gold and the acquiring of estates. But the motive of the king in extending his empire beyond seas was to create regal states, — states whose autonomies might resemble in every feature the autonomy of the parent state as a mirror reflects an image.