The Family Fortune

[jthomas_123]

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How did the Collins' get so rich, I understand the Story about Isaac crossing the Atlantic in a sail boat and finding the family fortune, but what was it, a treasure chest full of Gold?

And how would it last for over 300 years?

[The Ghost of Sarah Collins]

How did the Collins' get so rich, I understand the Story about Isaac crossing the Atlantic in a sail boat and finding the family fortune, but what was it, a treasure chest full of Gold?

And how would it last for over 300 years?

Isaac Collins was a ship builder by trade... arriving to this new land to make his fortune, in those early years fate was kind to the newly born Collins Clan, Isaac Collins prospered, with dedication and diligent work as well as an expertise in ship building, it was in later years that the Collins family entered into fishing and the canning there of.

This is how the Collins Family became who they are now.
 

[Luciaphile]

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How did the Collins' get so rich, I understand the Story about Isaac crossing the Atlantic in a sail boat and finding the family fortune, but what was it, a treasure chest full of Gold?

And how would it last for over 300 years?

All conjecture:
If I had to guess, I would venture that the family probably got its start doing things like smuggling and wrecking (I think that's what it's called: put out false lights on the coast, lure ships in and then steal their cargo).  They went respectable venturing into ship building and probably still keeping the smuggling and then probably in the 1870s shifted over to commercial canning.  

That and owning a lot of property and squeezing rent money out of it would go a long way to bringing in the dough.  

Luciaphil