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The Starving Time in the winter of 1609-’10 was a winter full of decay and anguish. Only sixty colonists managed to survive this time. The ships full of supplies were almost to the small settlement, and with it came the chance to return to England. Despite the agony the colonists went through, communally they stayed as a whole. Willing to submit themselves and their families through the calamites yet to come, it is still a mystery as to why they would want to stay in America. I believe that one reason why the colonists of Jamestown decided to stay is that they had proved themselves to be amongst the most resilient people of the colony. Of the hundreds of people that migrated to America, only sixty remained. It proved that the colonists were more likely to survive most obstacles to come. It would have been reassuring to a spouse because they did not die and would be seen as tough and hardy. They also might have thought that if they survived, there would be no point in returning because they could handle the tough new life. Another reason why the colonists might have stayed is that they enjoyed the freedom and large amounts of land that came with life in America. England is a small island that was very populated. In the colonies, the people were given one hundred acre plantations. Also, in the Jamestown, the colonists did not have a sovereign breathing down their necks. The king of England was an ocean away, so the people had a reasonable amount of freedom.  The third reason why I think that the colonists of Jamestown decided to stay was because of the social hierarchy. In England, the classes of society ruled your life. The high aristocrats did not meddle in the affairs of the middle class nor the low class and so on. In Jamestown, there were no classes. All of the colonists were of the working class because they all needed to work in order to survive. Had the colonists gone back to England, their rank would have dropped entirely to the lower class. The gentlemen who had made the voyage to the New World had used all of their savings for the journey and had not worked at a paying job since they had left. Obviously had they gone back to England, they would have returned penniless.