He managed to charm and marry a very rich widow and subsequently buy a big house. Somehow everybody disliked him. He did not get respect from others who considered him an ignoramus and wished him bad luck. But he did not care and made the next move. At the end of the War of Independence European currency was worth nothing. The only buyer of it was Dexter who stored bags of useless then paper. But when the bad times were over and trade with Europe resumed, it turned out that this was not a stupid move at all. Timothy became a nouveau-riche.
He decided that he was a genius in business and bought two ships. His first big business action was to buy warming pans and send them to West India. His captains sold them all and made big profit. It turned out that locals needed ladles for their booming molasses industry. Timothy was so excited that his next business move was much weirder. He sent woolen mittens to the tropical places in the Caribbean. All the cargo was sold out almost instantly by Asian merchants who bought them for export to Siberia.
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