The Chesapeake colonies relied on slave labor and commercial tobacco farming to stimulate their economy (Edmund 6). With a large amount of fertile land and a system that favored unfree labor, the Chesapeake colonies were able to build a healthy and successful economy through the export of tobacco. New England, however, did not have the fertile lands that the Chesapeake had and did not tolerate outright slavery. Despite being intolerant of slavery, New England society relied heavily on indentured servitude as it progressed throughout history. The town of Andover provides an excellent example of this, which was comprised of a close family dynamic in which sons are indentured servants to their fathers until they obtain their own land (Greven). As a result, New England became a patriarchal society of skilled workers. Through trades such as fishing, small-scale agriculture, and shipbuilding they created a healthy global trading system. However the Puritans were not satisfied with economic success, in fact, it could be seen as negative because focusing on economic success would take away from their goal of creating God's utopia. This may be why some economically successful colonists were persecuted . Many of the women accused of being witches in the Salem witch trials were economically successful, indicating that their decision to succeed instead of fully committing to the colony's original cause made them martyrs (Lynn 6.5.15). The lack of flexibility in the motivations of the New England colonies led to a repudiation of economic success while the Chesapeake colonies embraced