PURITAN ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS by Dr. Gary North
Free Online Book
http://www.garynorth.com/PURITAN_ECONOMIC_EXPERIMENTS.pdf
The Puritan Experiment in Common Ownership:
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-puritan-experiment-in-common-ownership#axzz2lb9Swa3l
An essay by Dr. Gary North summarizes the background as to why common ownership was first initiated at the colony.