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After Jefferson, a Question About Washington and a Young Slave
New York Times ^
| July 7, 1999
| Nicholas Wade
Posted on 05/28/2009 5:25:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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West Ford , drawing by Vinson Loffing, 1858
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Janet Allen, left, and her sister Linda Bryant, descendants of West Ford, son of a slave, contend that his father was George Washington. [Steve Groer/Rocky Mountain News]
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:25:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: Pharmboy; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:27:27 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I am soooooo tired of this. The DNA evidence used for the Sally Hemmings test, werent’ even from TJ himself, and apparently these aren’t from GW either. I am just not sure what the point is here, more evidence condemning those evil white Founders or pride in the heritage. I suspect I know.
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:29:52 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: SunkenCiv
West Ford more closely resembles Looter Guy than the women in the picture.
To: CaptRon
Oh, and I can really see the similarity between George and West from that drawing.
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:31:40 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
Lets see, the NYT’s put this out......
OK I guess I'll believe it, not sure tho
/sarc
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:41:50 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(o)...Ayatollah of GlennBeckistan... keep it goin' brother...(o)
To: SunkenCiv
This really doesn’t mesh with anything we know about President Washington.
To: SunkenCiv
George failed to produce children with Martha who had previously produced two.
GW is high on my list of sterile possibilities.
Was the father of our country a father?
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:43:31 PM PDT
by
Battle Axe
(Repent, for the coming of the Lord is neigh.)
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posted on
05/28/2009 5:44:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Battle Axe
sidebar: Martha had four children by her first marriage. The NYT story points out that, due to their not having children, George may have been shooting blanks. Of course, by this time the gays have probably weighed in with claims that George wore buttless chaps when he went out at night.
As a girl of 18--about five feet tall, dark-haired, gentle of manner--she married the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. Two babies died; two were hardly past infancy when her husband died in 1757. *
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05/28/2009 5:49:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: mkmensinger
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"Let's see the birth certificate! oops..." |
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05/28/2009 5:54:40 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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05/28/2009 5:56:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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05/28/2009 5:57:59 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Battle Axe; SunkenCiv
George failed to produce children with Martha who had previously produced two. GW is high on my list of sterile possibilities.
George Washington had a severe case of smallpox in his youth (he had horrible scars due to this) and smallbox often causes sterility, particularly in males.
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:01:03 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: SunkenCiv
"Let's see the birth certificate! oops..." ROFLMAO!
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:02:29 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: wagglebee
George Washington had a severe case of smallpox in his youth (he had horrible scars due to this) and smallbox often causes sterility, particularly in males. Thanks, I think you nailed it. Funny how the reporter and the families involved don't mention this (...seems fairly... uhh... significant...).
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05/28/2009 6:04:48 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Talisker; SunkenCiv
Few people who had cases of smallpox as severe as Washington’s even survived, so it is highly probable that there were long-term effects and sterility is right at the top of the list.
Also, a person of Washington’s social status (and he was VERY conscious of this) would do everything possible to produce a male heir. Martha Custis was twenty-seven when she married George Washington, she had already had four children and had no known medical problems after this, so it is a virtual certainty that she was fertile. The only real logical conclusion is that George Washington was sterile.
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:14:14 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Battle Axe
Martha had 4 children, two of whom died in childhood before she married George.
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:39:25 PM PDT
by
kalee
(01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
To: SunkenCiv
Is there any point at which we are all going to start treating these things with the contempt they so richly deserve?
Even nutjob America-haters know this is buncombe.
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:45:18 PM PDT
by
dsc
(A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.)
To: SunkenCiv
This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus
on his mother’s side.
I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have
little else to sustain them.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a
world in which happiness is always in short supply.
LAZARUS LONG
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posted on
05/28/2009 6:49:50 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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