Martha Dandridge was born in 1731 into a gentrified family of considerable, though not extravagant, wealth, in New Kent County, Virginia. Throughout her girlhood, and until she married George ...

(CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: June 2nd, 1731, 282 years ago today . . . the day Martha Dandridge was born near Williamsburg, Virginia. She was just 18 when she ...

George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

Martha Dandridge's first husband died after seven years of marriage and four children. A year and a half later at age 27, the pretty, personable and very rich widow married her second husband ...

Sitter Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, 2 Jun 1731 - 22 May 1802 Exhibition Label Born Chestnut Grove, Virginia First Lady 1789–1797 Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington in 1759, ...

Phillips, as Martha, shared how her first husband’s father, John Custis, was adamantly against his son, Daniel Parke Custis, marrying Martha Dandridge. Martha, who was only 18 years old at the time, ...

Wiki Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731–May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lady, Martha Washington, had a half-sister who was a black woman. She probably ...

The New York Times Saturday Review of Books: Was not Patsy a common diminutive for Martha in the eighteenth century? When my grandmother, daughter of the only private who served under Washington ...

MARTHA: Well, I was saying, my name is Martha and a long time ago when I was in grade school, they were pictures of Martha Washington in the classroom with gray hair and like plump and a double chin.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on a Virginia plantation in 1732. Her father was a wealthy planter and slave owner, prominent in Williamsburg society. At the age of 18, she married Daniel ...