Ever since the days when our English forefathers dwelt in village communities in the forests of northern Germany, the idea of a common land or Folkland-a territory belonging to the whole community, and upon which new communities might be organized by a process analogous to what physiologists call cell-multiplication-had been perfectly familiar to everybody.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske
Townships budded from village or parish Folkland in Maryland and Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, just as they had done in England before the time of Alfred.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske
It witnessed the creation of a national territory beyond the Alleghanies,-an enormous Folkland in which all the thirteen old states had a common interest, and upon which new and derivative communities were already beginning to organize themselves.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske