The Chesapeake colonies relied on slave labor and commercial tobacco cultivation to boost their economy (Edmund 6). With a large amount of fertile land and a system favoring unfree labor, the Chesapeake colonies were able to build a healthy and prosperous economy through the export of tobacco. New England, however, did not have the fertile land that the Chesapeake had and did not tolerate outright slavery. Although intolerant of slavery, New England society relied heavily on indentured servitude as it progressed through history. The town of Andover provides a great example, consisting of a close family dynamic where children are indentured servants of their father until they obtain their own land (Greven). As a result, New England became a patriarchal society of skilled workers. Through occupations such as fishing, small-scale farming, and shipbuilding, they created a healthy global trading system. Yet the Puritans were not satisfied with economic success. In fact, this could be seen as negative, as focusing on economic success would deprive them of their goal of creating God's utopia. This may be why some of the economically successful settlers were persecuted. Many of the women accused of being witches during 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 incentives of the New England colonies led to the rejection of economic success while the Chesapeake colonies embraced