Marriage
John Carver married Catherine (White) Leggatt sometime after 1599. There were no recorded surviving children. They had two children but both died while in Leiden, Holland.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
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—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“the mother lies down on her marriage bed
and eats up her heart like two eggs.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)