 Yes, Elkanah Watson had been an American patriot in the War of Independence. And he could see that another conflict was coming with England. And he thought that the United States needed to be dependent upon its own wool production. And so he imported some merino sheep and brought them down into town under a shade tree so he could show them off to his neighbors. And shortly thereafter, within a few years, he had organized the community for other people to bring their sheep, their oxen, their dairy animals.