American Communities

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Excerpt from American Communities: Revised Edition, Enlarged to Include Additional Societies, New and Old, Communistic, Semi-Communistic and Co-OperativeThe charter authorizing the Jamestown settlement contained a provision that the members of the colony should for five years trade together in a common stock, but this proviso was clearly inserted for the benefit of certain gentlemen of London, to whom the charter was granted, and who were the original promoters of the enterprise. That it was unpopular is shown by its abandonment before the expiration of the five years, and evidence is wanting that the colo nists themselves had any purpose to found a settle ment based on the common ownership of property.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.