When they became magistrates of a county of North Carolina they continued to act on the lines they had already marked out.

The increase of population had brought an increase of wealth.

The settlers were still frontiersmen, clad in buckskin or homespun, with rawhide moccasins, living in log-cabins, and sleeping under bearskins on beds made of buffalo hides; but as soon as they ventured to live on their clearings the ground was better tilled, corn became abundant, and cattle and hogs increased as the game diminished.

Nashborough began to look more like an ordinary little border town.

[Footnote: The justices built a court-house and jail of hewed logs, the former eighteen feet square, with a lean-to or shed of twelve feet on one side.