It was supposed that they would stay.

And so there was a boom; but by and by they went away, and prices went down, and it was many years before Jamestown got another start.

I have written about Jamestown in the "Gilded Age," a book of mine, but it was from hearsay, not from personal knowledge.

My father left a fine estate behind him in the region round about Jamestown--75,000 acres.[2] When he died in 1847 he had owned it about twenty years.

The taxes were almost nothing (five dollars a year for the whole), and he had always paid them regularly and kept his title perfect.