For his service to the Crown he was granted an estate of 3,450 acres.

He left in addition to the mansion, an estate of 15,000 acres and 400 slaves.

They lived in a Philadelphia suburb on a 6.8 acre estate.

Jasper and his sisters live on an estate of 250 acres.

Or, and this where your naivete really shows, buy a 50,000 acre estate for the day when they will need it.

He claims to have had up to 75 'wifelets' over the years, some of whom live on the 10,000 acre estate.

In 1972 the house and 2000 acre estate was acquired by the Mackaness family.

Around that is a farmed estate of 1,500 acres.

The estate of 4984 acres was auctioned 21 October 1958 and partly restored in the 1970s.

"It's very unusual today to find estates of 50 or 60 acres within an hour's drive from mid-Manhattan," he said.