A commune? Or a contractual business arrangement?
Both I guess. Glad that they were able to change the terms of the agreement and make it a success.
From my previous link:
*** The colony’s leaders identified the source of their problem as a particularly vile form of what Bradford called “communism.” Property in Plymouth Colony, he observed, was communally owned and cultivated. This system (”taking away of property and bringing [it] into a commonwealth”) bred “confusion and discontent” and “retarded much employment that would have been to [the settlers’] benefit and comfort.” ***