vi society in the south government by the of the towns made even the farms to the several towns the town meeting from being a side meeting to a date for the putting in and out of cows became a place where the very sources of political power lay the leading were by the representatives of the towns over and over this was unexpected in a day when the magistrate was as the appointed of the lord the offered strong resistance but the stronger resistance of the would not down efforts were made to the lover house but the having got the bit in their teeth carried things their own way and then the government fell into the hands of the towns or rather as has been said into the hands of the churches whose members did all the ix the custom of farms in the first generation to prominent citizens in return for the assistance given in colony planting was in the between independent towns and farms the towns by natural selection won the day the prominent man a little more eminent than the others was content to take a larger share in the town instead of a separate grant after the first generation there were fewer men of distinction engaged in planting towns and hence fewer occasions for special land and labor in the early colonies the new became exceedingly fond of the town system he did not think of doing without it everywhere that new went in the first and later generations the town system went with them but it did not elsewhere acquire any such as in and there were no political privileges and the church was not of the prevailing order long island new and certain regions in the bay all had the inevitable town plan one or two churches moved away into south and where their village plan was lost in the larger of the south if we had the evidence that is perhaps lost we should find that the or village community could be found in the southern colonies such a sub colony as that of or to which an by some or fit name was promised must have contemplated common lands and other elements of the that and its rustic ally the hundred and its type the were the form in which nearly all the local government of england was cast but nearly all the men of perished at the hands of the indians or otherwise indian the growth of a demanding much land and the consequent rapid development of soon destroyed every of the town in virginia a hundred in proved that a had been granted to it in if we look to it is hard chap vi note ii note smith of note the of civilization chap vi johnson s old md s s assistant ch v and s ms contrast between the north and south to make out whether with courts established there very early had of as is probable from the usual organization of a but the circumstances were most to the community the great of tobacco set people s teeth on edge to become rich out of it cultivation almost from the start began to change its character great and greater of bond servants free and were in virginia and and sold for four years service for half a century or more large estates with white bond servants were the rule in there were three times as many white bond servants as in virginia within ten or fifteen years after that as the century drew to a close virginia ceased to buy white servants in any numbers and worked by black servants became the rule a very usual method of holding land in england was by the system the were to the eldest son or other heir of the lord but parts of these were village from the most ancient times in new england they made village without any lord of the and were left out of the count the of farms quite independent of the town contemplated another english mode of but just as land and labor in the early colonies villages were crowded out in virginia so were independent farms driven to the wall in the an order went forth that farms should belong to the towns in which they were situated it was inconvenient to have them separate the church was the ground to keep the people strictly in line with advanced the farmer could have no rights in common fields his cattle were foreign to the pasture his pigs had no right to pick up nuts from the common he had no acre rights when were made but he must attend the town church and pay the upon him for the clergy and other town burdens and all burdens were put directly on the town individuals were unknown the town was the and the sometimes as at the town bought out a man s his accommodation exchanging a carved out of the great wilderness but the favorite method of settling land came to be in a colony or town by this means the power was greatly the minister was usually the one educated man in the parish he knew some latin a nd greek and he had even a of hebrew he was educated in what was the only branch of knowledge affected by minister or � his over the was tolerably complete on the other hand the southern with long stretches of between him and his neighbors could chap vi the of civilization chap vi cultivate his wide fields in almost entire independence his code of morals even was mostly his own but his public interests were as extensive as his county or his province this state of society self reliance and produced more leading than the other but the people lacked the new england and to organization without which the of the revolution would have been vain the from his and 