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"Jim Wilkins" writes:

"Mike Spencer" wrote in message
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That was my impression, too. But dang! It worked! Pilgrims
landed at Plymouth in 1620 and set up a hardscrabble subsistence
existence on the edge of the wilderness. Less than 30 years later,
the ironworks proprietors built a high-tech industrial plant even
further out into the wilderness.


Ironically the Pilgrims were saved by a local native named Squanto who
was more worldly and experienced than they were, having lived and
worked in London and on several voyages.

http://mayflowerhistory.com/tisquantum/

"On March 16, they got a surprise: an Indian named Samoset walked
right into the Colony and welcomed them in broken English."


Didn't know that and I even lived for a winter in Plymouth between jobs.

I suppose that there may have been some advantage to the ironworks
proprietors the the Massachusetts Bay Colony was heavy to dissenters
who have have been scum from the virepoint of the Church of England
but were not retarded in business or technology. I'll have to re-read
the book published just after the Saugus restoration.

TYVM.
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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada