There may be a conflation of the founding fathers with the initial stock of pilgrims which is understandable given the ambiguity of the term ‘founded’. I guess

There may be a conflation of the founding fathers with the initial stock of pilgrims which is understandable given the ambiguity of the term ‘founded’. I guess the pilgrims would be considered anti-social as they didn’t ’go along to get along’ but AFAIK powerful trade guilds dominated a large part of the economic private life and the people persecuted/excluded from them may not have had much choice in the matter.