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To: Publius

There were very few bastards in Massachusetts at the time. Those Great Migration puritans might have had a lot of six month babies but they did get married.


27 posted on 04/19/2009 11:53:52 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

True, but remember that Smith and Pitcairn were British, with the British experience of bastardy. And in Britain, it was everywhere.


29 posted on 04/19/2009 12:00:39 PM PDT by Publius (Sex is the manifestation of God's wicked sense of humor.)
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To: heartwood

Technically that is a bastard.


37 posted on 04/19/2009 7:00:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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