Excerpt from American Church Silver of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: With a Few Pieces of Domestic Plate, Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, July to December, 1911 The population of the colony was almost Wholly interested in agriculture and wealth was quite equally distributed. No one was very rich and no one very poor. Even New Haven, its largest town, the seat of a college, and in a limited way a commercial port, was distinctly a farming community. This was due to its geographical position, for no town in New England had been settled under fairer commercial prospects or with greater financial resources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.