This would be a curious detail, and could have very well escaped the general attention of the population, not to mention the attention of Thomas’s descendants, were the same record not found to contain the seemingly nonchalant, but conspicuously succinct addition:
This joint stock-raising enterprise met with many discouragements, and after a few months’ trial was reluctantly abandoned.
November 3, 1635, the General Court passed the following order:
Whereas Thomas Coleman hath contracted with Sir Richard Saltonstall & dyvers other gentlemen in England & here for the keeping of certaine horses, bulls & sheepe in a gen’all stocke, for the space of three yeares, & nowe, since his comeing hither, hath been exceeding negligent in discharging the trust committed to him, absenting himselfe for a longe tyme, From the said cattell, as also neglecting to provide howseing for them, by reason whereof many of said cattell are dead already, & more damage like dayly to accrue to the said Gentlem, it is therefore ordered, that it shal be lawfull for the said gentlemen to devide the oats & hay provided for the said cattell amongst themselves & soe euery one to take care of their owne cattell for the winter.
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