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Outside of tutors, William and his brothers had little formal education, but were involved in their father's business ventures at a young age.

Jacob Blount raised livestock, cotton and tobacco, produced turpentine, and operated a mill and horse racing track for the local community.

His land acquisitions, consisting of several thousand acres by the end of the 1760s, taught his sons the profit potential of aggressive land speculation.