In the southern colonies which were Virginia and Carolina, the colonies used a planation model. The other settlements which included New England and Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, which were also called the middle colonies, operated on a family farm model. Both attracted large numbers of settlers in their first century. Like the French, the English hoped to find gold and silver in their American colonies, as the Spanish did. Which in the end were not very successful. Economically, the English were very successful in tobacco. By 1617 the colonists were producing 70,000 pounds a year. By the end of the American Revolution, production had reached 100,000,000 pounds a year. They have nine months of work every year to cultivate. Plantation owners relied on the labor of African slaves to do the work. Settlement in New England differed from the Virginia model. His focus was primarily on family farming and city life. The Puritans who settled in Massachusetts built their settlements around the center of the city. Daily life revolved around religion and family. Boston was the colony's first settlement. The Native American population helped the English settlers survive; they gave supplies to new arrivals and taught them to survive. However the English did not treat the Native Americans well in return. The English occasionally shot Native Americans without provocation. The Church of England is a Christian church. After 1534, people who still wanted to be Roman Catholic were persecuted by the English government because the Church of England was the official church. Lord Baltimore decided to establish a colony in America where Roman Catholics could worship