Enslaved women in the 18th and early 19th century were often forced to labor in the fields or in an urban setting like ...
Source: mountvernon.org In 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a young widow with two children and a great deal of wealth. When Washington was elected president — first in 1789 and again in ...
click image for close-up 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.