 Indeed, many of the frontier families had come from older colonial settlers originally from the tidewater region and places like the Bermuda Hundreds.Many of the Tidewater's colonial junior members and cadet branches had moved westward and played leading roles in establishing new settlements and networks thereby keeping the unity of colonial society.Thus, the massive eruption of Indian violence and full scale war on the frontier effected the Tidewater keenly despite not being directly attacked.