> The Crown did not heavily tax the colonials.

Huh, did they not? After the Seven Years' War, the Currency Act of 1764 received assent, and it functionally required that public debts be paid in hard money. Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, this was a little hard to come by in the colonies.

> Bone evidence showed that the colonials worked like dogs and died young.

I'd be interested to see the anthropological chain of inference for this.