In 1607, when the Virginia Company managed to colonize the Tidewater-Chesapeake Bay, there was a second Virginia Company owned by the same joint-stock company that was tasked with colonizing to the north; it failed, because it landed way too far north in present day Maine and wasn't prepared for that. But what if it had landed on Long Island/the Hudson instead, which at that moment, wasn't occupied by any other colonial power? Basically, I'm interested in what an alternate Northeast looks like/develops like if its settled by the same second sons gentry swashbucklers & indentured English servants as Virginia/the South rather than by Quakers/Puritans/Patroons.
Looks like a large "Keystone State" a la Pennsylvania, which means its agricultural/commercial profile is somewhere in between OTL Southern colonies and OTL New England. You mention patroons, but a Anglo style patroonage system would probably dominate the Hudson/Long Island/Jersey area, and into Eastern Pennsylvania---the real question is do the Puritans still land in New England here and set up their society, and is Penn still granted the Delaware River Valley? The Anglican, profit oriented stock company settlers would then be surrounded by very idealistic religious radicals if so.
Unlike Quaker colonies, you’d see less religious conformity. Anglicanism would dominate nominally, but the colony might be more hedonistic, hierarchical, and secular, at least among the elites.
>>18002559America would be a backward shithole like the rest of the new world
America would be a respectful aristocratic republic lead by the most qualified people.>>18004494You wouldn’t have Irish-Italian peasant stock mutts consistently having the worst opinions and suicidal policies like this faggot here.
