Were the first British settlers in the Americas intelligent?

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…few untouched places in the world where they could start anew and spread the beliefs of Christianity. However, it is for exactly these reasons that I condemn it. I think that they just were greedy and really rushed into something unprepared, which is why so many died those first winters, and had they prepared then they might have been enlightened. That is how I feel on whether the first British settlers are enlightened or not.