New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by the people of English origin. By 1700, the area had evolved into two distinct societies. The societies developed so distinctly because of the sociological differences between the people of both regions.
One of the societies consisted of forty families that worked together as one and centered on God. The Lord came before success and the people followed him trying to be Disciples of Christ (Doc. D). The families shown in Doc. B ranged from 1 year to 40 at greatest. Most had some sort of skill that helped in doing work whether it be a tailor, a clothier or a minister, they all had something that they could do to help out the community. Although some were rich and others poor, they all pulled together as one to grow as a society. If one family had a great amount of something and another did not, they would trade so that both families were well off. The whole community made other's problems their own and helped to get want needed to be done, done. They wanted to be the kind of society that others would look up to and see as an example of how to live life for God (Doc. A).
Although this community had great ideas and seemed to work rather well, it had its problems just like any other society. In 1676 some of the businessmen of the community were making more money than they really needed by over pricing their goods. This was not okay with the leaders of the community, so they said that everything would be priced the same so that nobody made a gigantic amount of money. This way everybody could get by and it made all the citizens equal. They believed that having too many possessions or too much money was looked down upon in the eyes of God. Again this goes to show that daily life was lived for God (Doc. E). After some time, the same leaders that stated that too much money is considered a sin were getting rich off the families by robbing them of their money and using it...