That is unfortunate because I loved your reply. By the way, nothing about the story is true. First of all William Bradford didn't write like that, here is his actual written comment on the subject
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Thus all were to be cast into single shares according to the order abovesaid; and so every one was to pay his part according to his proportion towards ye purchass, & all other debts, what ye profite of ye trade would not reach too; viz. a single man for a single share, a maister of a famalie for so many as he had. This gave all good contente." [sic]
The actual document also describes how the Pilgrims began to part way from the collective because of over-population of the settlement.
From the Bradford Journal - Dispersion
Any story that includes the Pilgrims having religious tolerance is obviously false because the Pilgrims were a faction of the Puritans. They did not have religious tolerance, they were zealots.
Five minutes of research can diffuse a lot of internet babble.
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