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His entire diary is just pages and pages of "I visited Mrs So-and-so, rogered her twice very well, neglected my prayers" "I met a very tall woman and rogered her three times" "rogered [Betty S-t-r-d] twice, for which God forgive me" literally his entire diary for years unreal
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"An old Tidewater folk saying in Prince George's County, Maryland, defined a virgin as a girl who could run faster than her uncle."
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"The founders of New England made rape a hanging crime. In the courts of Chesapeake it was sometimes punished less severely than petty theft." Tidewater trying real hard to make the Puritans look good
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Onto childrearing and character. Lots of Rules and Etiquette covering a basically barbaric spirit. Yet: George Washington read a translation of Seneca's dialogues, and Addison's Cato, and frequently quoted the latter.
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Lucy Parke Byrd, with the iron and the dick husband? Also had a crazy father, Col. Daniel Parke! Publicly challenged the governor of Maryland to a duel. Kidnapped a married woman from England as a concubine. When the local priest condemned him from the pulpit? DUEL.pic.twitter.com/LptCu4ZxAg
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