The profit on this one voyage was seventy thousand dollars.
By Eighteen Hundred and Ten, John Jacob Astor was worth
two million dollars. He began to invest all his surplus money
in New York real estate. He bought acerage property in the
vicinity of Canal Street. Next he bought Richmond Hill, the
estate of Aaron Burr. It consisted of one hundred and sixty
acres just above Twenty-third Street. He paid for the land
a thousand dollars an acre. People said Astor was crazy.
In ten years he began to sell lots from the Richmond Hill
property at the rate of five thousand dollars an acre.
Fortunately for his estate he did not sell much of the land at
this price, for it is this particular dirt that makes up that
vast property known as ``The Astor Estate.''

During the Revolutionary War, Roger Morris, of Putnam
County, New York, made the mistake of siding with the
Tories.

A mob collected, and Morris and his family escaped, taking
ship to England.

Before leaving, Morris declared his intention of coming back
as soon as ``the insurrection was quelled.''

The British troops, we are reliably informed, failed to quell
the insurrection.

Roger Morris never came back.