Martha+Washington


 * Family:**
 * June 2, 1731
 * Chestnut Grove Plantation, New Kent County, Virginia
 * Eldest; 3 brothers & 5 sisters
 * Father: John Dandridge
 * Mother: Frances Jones
 * Education:**
 * Informal
 * Trained at home in music, sewing, household management
 * Knowledge of plantation management, crop sales homeopathic medicine, animal husbandry
 * Probabnly taught by indentured servant-Thomas Leonard
 * Regularly tutored for about 5 yrs. until 12 or 13 at Poplar Grove Plantation

First:
 * Marriage**
 * Married to Daniel Parke Custis at the age of 19 (1750)
 * Widowed at 26 with 2 children
 * Considerable power through wealth & privellaged social status
 * Children: Daniel Parke Custis (1751–1754), Frances Parke Custis (1753–1757), John Parke "Jacky" Custis (1754–1781), Martha Parke "Patsy" Custis (1756–1773)

Second:
 * Married to George Washington at age of 27 ( January 6, 1759)
 * Married at White house
 * Lived at Mount Vernon
 * No children
 * Not sure about relationship b/c she burned all the letters right before her death

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 * Occupation after Marriage:**
 * Directed slaves & servants
 * Responsible for non-insubstantial process of harvesting, preparing & preserving
 * Caretaker for husband during American Revolutionary War


 * Inauguration:**
 * Unable to attend first ceremony
 * Attended second ceremoney

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 * First Lady:**
 * 1789, April 30 - 1797, March 4
 * 57 years old