The family consisted of seven wives living in seven different houses.

How many children there were I never knew, but there was one wife who did not have any.

She was a fine specimen of English beauty.

Taylor's women were nearly all English.

It was the business of my friend to cut wood, and do chores generally for the Taylor family living in seven different places at the same time.
Taylor was in Europe that winter looking after the interest of the church, and possibly after a few more wives, and consequently could not, in person, attend to all of the necessities of the seven branches of his family.