 And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle and a great deal of ground to keep them, all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the Bay quickly and the town in which they lived compactly till now was...  A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860... - Page 298by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1866Full view - About this book
 | John Leander Bishop - Industries - 1861 - 668 pages
...stocking new farms, and rearing them was a source of much profit. It is stated, by Governor Ilutchiuson, that, as early as 1632, "no man now thought he could...informs us that cows rose to the price of twenty, tweuty-five, and even twenty-eight pounds, cow-calves to ten pounds, and milk-goats to three and four... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Massachusetts - 1898 - 390 pages
...otherwise keep their cattle ; and having oxen grown they must have land fir ploughing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live, except he had cattle...of ground to keep them ; all striving to increase theii stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the bay, and the town, in which they lived... | |
 | Augustus Ephraim Alden - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 328 pages
...they must have land for plowing & tillage. And no man now thought he could live, except he had catle and a great deal of ground to keep them ; all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scatered all over ye bay, quickly, and ye towne in which they live compactly... | |
 | Agnes Rothery - Norfolk County (Mass.) - 1920 - 256 pages
...they must have land for plowing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live except he had catle and a great deal of ground to keep them: all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over y6 bay, quickly, and y6 towne, in which they had lived... | |
 | Agnes Rothery - Norfolk County (Mass.) - 1920 - 252 pages
...they must have land for plowing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live except he had catle and a great deal of ground to keep them: all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over ye bay, quickly, and ye towne, in which they had lived... | |
 | William Bradford - Massachusetts - 1952 - 518 pages
...otherwise keep their cattle, and having oxen grown they must have land for plowing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle...keep them, all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the Bay quickly and the town in which they lived compactly... | |
 | Virginia DeJohn Anderson - History - 1991 - 248 pages
...Johnson, Wonder-Working Providence, ed. Jameson, 209. persal of the population. In 1632, he noted that "no man now thought he could live except he had cattle and a great deal of ground to keep them. ... By which means they were scattered all over the Bay quickly and the town in which they lived compactly... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - Social Science - 1992 - 588 pages
...New York. The Pilgrim leader William Bradford noted this tendency among his flock early on: "No man thought he could live, except he had cattle and a...ground to keep them; all striving to increase their stock. . . . Some were still for staying togeather in this place, alledging men might here live, if... | |
 | Edmund Carpenter - Massachusetts - 2007 - 132 pages
...otherwise keep their cattle; and having oxen grown, they must have land for plowing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle...keep them, all striving to increase their stocks." Across the bay to the northward were green hillsides and rich and abundant pasture lands, and there... | |
 | Stephen Innes - Business & Economics - 1995 - 432 pages
...otherwise keep their cattle, and having oxen grown they must have land for plowing and tillage. And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle and a great deal of ground to keep them [upon], all striving to increase their stocks. By which means, [the Plymouth colonists] were scattered... | |
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