Some of the houses were erected at great cost. In 1622, Adam Dixon stated in a petition to the king that he and a companion had built a house at a cost of 100 pounds. Source: Abstracts of Proceedings of Virginia Company of London, vol. 1.
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Houses
For a number of years after the establishment of Jamestown, neither plank nor nails entered into the construction of most of the houses. Undressed logs were principally used. In a letter from George Sandys, in 1623 he expressed the opinion that the only advantage which resulted from the massacre the previous year was that it compelled the planters to draw into narrower limits and to live more closely together.
Source: Virginia Vetusta by Neill.
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