Oh, a few of mine were rich way back... a few Barons, Lords and Dukes in England... but I seem to be descended from 3rd daughters and unlucky 2nd & 3d sons of the heads of the family. By the time they had sorted themselves out in the colonies, the ones who didn't inherit the best loot headed to Western Pennsylvania and became farmers & such. They kept good records, though, and I have 3 governors of the colonies in my list... Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Dudley and Thomas Prence IV. I guess politics wasn't particularly lucrative in the 1600s.