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  "thread": {
    "id": 612,
    "subject": "Suzanne Delage:Quilts & smallpox",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-13T19:26:33+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-13T19:26:33+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0028@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Doolittle",
        "address": "mdoolittle at metlife.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-13T19:26:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Suzanne Delage:Quilts & smallpox",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "William:  the smallpox bit won't wash, not in a quilt from\nAmerican Revolution times.  While the idea of leprosy coming\nthrough infected items might have occurred to some colonists\n(via the Biblical precepts thereon), it's unlikely that\nanyone would have tried to pass smallpox on through germ\nwarfare in those pre-van-Leewenhoek days."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Actually the smallpox is possible.  I've read several accounts of European\ncolonists and/or soldiers giving clothes/bedclothes from smallpox victims\nto Native Americans *specifically* in the hope that they would catch the\ndisease.\n\nMike"
        }
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