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join me today on the American Revolution podcast. James Price was rich to begin with.

There is no doubt whatever about that.

He'd been born under the name James Higginbotham in 1757, under unknown but presumably unremarkable circumstances. Those circumstances were soon reversed, in a most Dickensian fashion when a rich relative

died, leaving his entire largesse to the young James with a single caveat, that he must drop

his given surname in honor of his benefactor and become James Price.

So the second James Price came to exist in this world, he came flush with cash.

Respect and admiration came soon after. With his new money and name, Price was welcomed

to an education at Oxford. We know he had a special interest in chemistry, and there are a couple

of notes about what an able experimenter he was.

But what specifically he did at Oxford?

We don't know, other than that it must have been extremely impressive.

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