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makers, wheelwrights, metal workers, and other artisans of essential
service to the spreading settlements of farmers. In the allotments of
land special care was taken to distribute the influx of foreign blood
so that it must necessarily fuse with the main body of settlers. This
design was so well carried out that in a few generations the only
absolutely distinct survival of this Huguenot migration was the
perpetuation of the old French family names. But the combination of
these two strong strains of blood made a compound of remarkable
character.
Besides this promoted
