After the soil had become worse, due to the large amounts of animals that compacted the soil and clearing natural agriculture, the land had become susceptible to flooding. The animals needed more and more grazing land, and thus the colonists cleared forests to make new land available, and as a result, began opening their ports to the export of timber which made them become fine shipbuilders and experts in commerce. ... The northern villages and farms became a tight-knit society. ...

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In Andover, healthy farm animals perish for no apparent reason, families die from smallpox, diabolical and inhumane crimes are committed, and other natural events that the Puritan society considered to be supernatural. ...

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