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I listened to two interesting podcasts about George Washington this morning that I wanted to share with the group.

The George Washington Story You Haven't Heard (Adam Grant with Ken Burns) https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/rethinking-the-george-washington-story-you...

Presidential: George Washington https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/podcasts/presidential/

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“The newlyweds [George & Martha Washington] were by no means prudish. …At some point that year, he also drew up a list of books inherited from the Custis estate that may disclose something of the amorous interests of Daniel and Martha Custis, or perhaps of Daniel's father. The couple possessed a copy of ‘Conjugal lewdness: or matrimonial whoredom‘ by Daniel Defoe and ‘The lover's watch: or the art of making love‘ by Aphra Behn.”

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Interesting fact - Washington seldom marked or wrote in his books. This contrasted with other Founding Fathers like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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From 1776-1807, New Jersey‘s state constitution gave voting rights to any adult —male, female, white or black —who had lived in NJ for at least a year and was worth at least 50 pounds. In 1807, the Anti-Federalist state legislature restricted the right to vote to white males in order to prevent women (who tended to vote Federalist) from participating in the 1808 presidential election. 😡

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“Their marital spats were the stuff of legend on the eastern shore of Virginia. When the couple rode by the shore one day, John became so enraged at Fidelia that he drove their carriage straight into Chesapeake Bay. When Fidelia asked where he was going, John replied with a sneer,
‘To hell, Madam.‘ To which she retorted boldly, ‘Drive on, sir.‘”

😂🤣 John and Fidelia Custis were the parents of Martha Washington‘s first husband.
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Just finished chapter 2. I love a map especially in history books. A couple of whoa! moments already. First, a potential ancestor connection on my mother‘s side to the Virginia Lieutenant Governor and second, Washington lived because of a bullet that missed. How different our country‘s history might have been.

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After extracting Washington‘s last remaining tooth, his dentist John Greenwood kept the rotted tooth as a keepsake and wore it on a key chain. 😳

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