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To: rolling_stone

Yet it’s legal to marry your first cousin in NY


22 posted on 10/20/2011 9:07:18 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr

New York takes it name from the Duke of York, later King James II. James II’s daughter Mary married her first cousin, William of Orange. (William’s mother was a sister of James II.) They later ruled as King William III and Queen Mary II.


31 posted on 10/20/2011 2:15:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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