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Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; And...;
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Urias;
And, well you get the picture... but to pick up the story a little later:
And Francis Thornton III begat William, and John, and Mary (and Francis IV and Elizabeth and Mildred and George)...
And Augustine Washington begat (THE) George and Jane...and Jane married John Thornton...
Should the genealogy within the Book of Genesis be expanded in some future age to include the bloodlines of Rappahannock County, it would be of no surprise to find the latter among the amendments. A perusal of this hypothetical revision would also indicate that, by 1700 A.D. at least, family sizes had not decreased much since the time
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