 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 aristocracy's 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, an economic, social, and political expansion had developed in which the Tidewater aristocracy played a key role in integrating the frontier with the Tidewater and henceforth with the larger British Empire.