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Apr 16, 2021 · Forty New Englanders were named alongside the likes of Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk on Forbes' recently-released billionaires list for 2021, listing all 2,755 of the richest...
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Publisher. Statesman. Entrepreneur. Inventor. Land speculator. Benjamin Franklin, the 10th son of a soap maker, grew his wealth—and reputation—in myriad ways. Along with a thriving business printing everything from books to sermons to currency, he published his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and his best-selling Poor Richard’s Almanack. He in...
George Washington accumulated vast acreage—more than 50,000 acres by his death—by shrewd speculation in frontier land he surveyed. Marrying one of the richest widows in Virginia, he developed a taste for fine things. At their Mount Vernonestate, he diversified their income, switching the primary cash crop from tobacco to wheat and starting a profit...
Born to a threadbare country parson, John Hancockwas adopted by his childless uncle, a wealthy Boston merchant. After attending Harvard College, Hancock mastered the family import-export business, expanding it to include building ships that carried whale oil to Britain and returned crammed with consumer goods for his chain of retail stores. Hancock...
Robert Morris, one of America’s early millionaires, was known as the chief financier of the American revolution. The illegitimate son of a Liverpool tobacco trader grew up in Maryland before becoming a youthful partner in an international trading house in Philadelphia. He grew rich building ships, cramming them with Chesapeake tobacco and trading i...
Thomas Jefferson, orphaned at 11, received a classical education at William and Mary College before studying law for seven years. His frontier practice yielded little cash. He abandoned it when he married the daughter of a wealthy slave trader who left much cash but even more debt. A compulsive shopper, Jefferson overspent his income from growing t...
Jun 23, 2024 · Saint Domingue, the French colony on the island of Hispaniola, also known as Haiti today, was considered the richest colony ever. It was the top producer of sugar, coffee, indigo, cacao, and cotton, making it incredibly lucrative. Which 13 colony was the richest?
Among the mainland colonies, the white southerners were the richest, on average, with about twice the wealth of New England or the Middle Atlantic region. If we include the West Indies as one of the colonial areas, then its thriving sugar industry made it the wealthiest.
Apr 3, 2024 · Courtesy of Symbotic. CONCORD, N.H. — Forbes released its 2024 list of billionaires on Tuesday, and this year there were more than ever: a record 2,781 billionaires, total. That’s 141 more...
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Mar 23, 2015 · New data now allow conjectures on the levels of real and nominal incomes in the 13 American colonies. New England was the poorest region, and the South was the richest.
