Tim Barton

They fired on every house except mine.

And that's literally where the British officers are.

So he goes to the guys firing the cannon and says, why aren't you firing in my house?

And they said, sir,

we know who's paying our check, right?

We know who you are, there's no way we would fire in your house.

And so the old historic accounts, they said that he pulled out his checkbook and he says, I will give a five pound guinea, I will give money for every man, the first man that hits it with a cannonball, he gets the first one, but then every cannonball after that,

i will literally pay every man well to this day his house still stands in virginia which is amazing people can literally go to yorktown and see it and there are cannonballs in the side of his house to this day that record says he literally was paying the men to fire on his own house to drive the british officers back and glenn these are the stories that when you read them you're like these guys are amazing it's so fun stories

So I would say that the percentage is small, but I would say probably there were probably 10 or 12 or 15.

And right.

I mean, obviously, wealth, there's different standards out of 56.

Sure.

But but when you talk about wealthy guys, they're John Hancock, very wealthy guy, Thomas Nelson, Jr., wealthy Charles Carroll.

There were some very wealthy individuals, but it was not the majority of them.

And you do have a great disparity from like the John Hancock.

One of John Hancock's best friends and running buddies was Sam Adams.

Sam Adams is the poorest of all those guys.

And you know the story.

But right, Sam Adams, growing up at 14, goes to Harvard.

He graduates when he's 18.