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Just catching up on old mail and I saw Jon Kukla's query.  I have a
17th-century example from George Washington's family.  His
great-grandfather John "wedded a twice-over widow, Anne Brett, and when
Anne died, he married her sister, the already thrice-married Frances
Appleton."  I'm quoting from my own "Imperfect God," page 28.  You'll find
a fuller treatment in that section of the round-robin of marriages that
culminated in GW.  The Washington men often seemed able to find women of
property to lead to the altar.

Henry Wiencek

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