 Virtually all of the farmers from Lincolnshire came to the colony as indentured servants in the 1730s and 1740s.However, by the 1750s, almost all of the Lincolnshire settlers in what is now Aiken County were living on their own private land, almost exclusively engaging in subsistence agriculture on smallholding farms.Many immigrants also came from the rural eastern half of the English county of Nottinghamshire.