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The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic - Timothy Kenslea...
"Kenslea turns next to the Boston-based courtships of Harry and Robert Sedgwick. The brothers courted "the friendlies," a group of young women who taught them...
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