I seriously doubt it since isolated families would have to worry about marauders, thieves, being in they way of some oncoming army, etc and being within a commu

I seriously doubt it since isolated families would have to worry about marauders, thieves, being in they way of some oncoming army, etc and being within a community buffers against that. America you had more space, less density of people, more recent movement of peoples, so probably they didn't have to worry about such things.