How did the geography of the New England colonies help the fishing industry,trade,and sawmills?
Thanks for your question, Marie: Although New Englanders continued to express their understanding of the land locally rather than broadly throughout most of the seventeenth century, their growing, evolving SOCIETY eventually led to changes in the land and to the neccessity of defining it more pre- cisely. The town plan of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, drawn between 1653 and 1656, illustrates some of these early attitudes toward the land: imprecise boundaries are almost randomly drawn in and a few houses are indiscriminately added to indicate the settled portion of the township. Winthrop’s “Tenhills Farm” repeats several of these early mapmaking conceptualizations with some differences: natural boundaries (in both cases water for FISHING) are included and other boundaries are more clearly indicated, though their precise locations are not identified. We know more about the boundaries, however, than about the property, which is still, for the most part, unexploited and undifferentiated. In t
