Although minor additions were made from time to time, the greater portion of the New England people sprang from this original stock.

尽管时不时会有一些小的补充，但新英格兰人的绝大部分都来自这个原始种群。

Basically the idea being that people who are Normans, people from Normandy, are sort of not the original French stock of people.

基本上这个想法是诺曼人， 来自诺曼底的人，有点不是法国人的原始血统。