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100 billion in modern equivalent value. So I don't know exactly how much he was actually worth. But he inherited land. He was surveying as a teenager. He worked as a professional lancer there in Virginia and got paid very well for it. He also married Martha and she was one of the wealthiest widows in Virginia. She bought significant lands and stuff like that and managing responsibilities blah blah. Land speculation, agriculture, whiskey. He was into whiskey. Largest whiskey plant in the United States by 1799. It was busy nearly 11,000 gallons of whiskey annually and was a profitable business.