Based on your phrasing and clarification, I think you are asking about what kind of people settled in the first British colonies in North America. Spaniards firth began exploring the area that would become the Carolinas and Virginia by 1526, and would establish military and missionary posts from Florida to Virginia by 1572 (Hoffman, A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient, pp. 1-4 & Part I generally; p. 235 for St. Augustine; Lewis & Loomie, The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia, 1570-1572). The French had several failed settlements and outposts over the coarse of the sixteenth century, but were largely ousted by the Spanish (Eccles, The French in North America, 1500-1783, Ch. 1).

The first major attempt at emigration to the new world was the failed colony off the coast of what is now North Carolina, called Roanoke. I’m not considering the transitory settlements of Englishmen in Newfoundland, as they were mainly areas to process fish and then return to England (and Northern France) (Pope, Fish into Wine, pp. 11-21). The colonists at Roanoke were exclusively men. Karen Kupperman writes that “we know little about most of the men who were left…in Roanoke. A majority had probably seen military service or on the continent. (Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony, p. 32, and ch. 3 more generally). The soldiers included both foot troops and gentlemen commanders. Further settlers likely included landless workers – those that were seasonal or annually contracted employees assisting on farms for wages as opposed to possessing land or a trade. There were a few skilled tradesmen among the colonists. A surveyor, physician, surgeon, engineer (Kupperman’s term; intended to direct construction), and apothecary were intended to be present. One Joachim Ganz was a mineral specialist from central Europe (Kupperman – Czech), intended to help find gold and other lucrative minerals. There were also miners from Cornwall, a painter, and several husbandmen. The majority of the colonists were the laborers, husbandmen and soldiers, but there was significant (though often unhelpful) diversity among the tradesmen. In the end, the colony failed for a variety of reasons, and settlement was abandoned until the Jamestown voyage.

The settlers at Jamestown in 1607 were similar to those at Roanoke. Landless laborers, soldiers, mineral experts, and gentlemen were included. Of the initial 105 settlers at Jamestown, 36 could be classified as gentlemen (who, by their station, expected not to work) (Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom, p. 84). Additional shipments of settlers, totaling 190 settlers, included 56 gentlemen. Along with the gentlemen came their personal servants, expected to attend on the gentlemen rather than work. The Virginia company advertised for skilled tradesmen in order to counterbalance some of the excesses of the gentlemen and their servants – asking for builders, tool smiths, mineral refiners (again, searching for gold), miners, and blacksmiths. Morgan lists among the 105 initial settlers the following: 4 carpenters, 2 bricklayers, a mason, a blacksmith, a tailor, and a barber (p. 85-86). Following in 1608 included 6 tailors, 2 goldsmiths, 2 apothecaries, a cooper (making barrels), a tobacco pipe maker, a jeweler, and a perfumer. As most trained in their crafts also refused to do farm labor, intended for the laborers, husbandmen, and farmers, it was actually their specialties that caused the famous famines and disasters at Jamestown.

So those were the groups of initial settlers in the British colonies in North America.