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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.


17 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)
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To: wagglebee

Thanks waggs!


22 posted on 05/28/2009 7:30:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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