| In the 21st century, thousands of people still come for the kauri, but they are sightseers, not hard-working foresters and settlers. |
| Many of the second and third generation of settlers grew flax and spun and wove yarn in addition to tending a small farm. |
| In fact, one of the settlers knowingly built a house on a surveyed roadway. |
| The Davis and the Somes families traced their ancestry to Cape Ann's earliest settlers. |
| Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port. |
| The earliest settlers according to archaeologists were a tribal people, the Ainu. |
