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Hace 1 día · On January 6, 1759, Washington, at age 26, married Martha Dandridge Custis, the 27-year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis. The marriage took place at Martha's estate; she was intelligent, gracious, and experienced in managing a planter's estate, and the couple had a happy marriage. [46]
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Hace 3 días · In 1749, at age 18, she married Daniel Parke Custis, who was 20 years her senior and an heir to a neighbouring plantation. During their life together she bore four children, two of whom died in infancy. Her husband’s death in July 1757 made her one of the wealthiest widows in the region.
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3 de may. de 2024 · His marriage in 1759 to Martha Dandridge Custis, the very wealthy widow of Daniel Parke Custis, vastly increased Washington’s income and labor force. More than eighty enslaved laborers belonging to Custis moved to Mount Vernon.
Hace 2 días · On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever. When she married George Washington in January 1759, she was twenty-seven years
3 de may. de 2024 · In 1758 Washington courted the rich young widow Martha Dandridge Custis. Her wealth came from her marriage to Daniel Parke Custis , whose death in 1757 had left twenty-six-year-old Custis with two small children and an estate worth approximately £30,000.
Hace 4 días · After Martha's death on May 22, 1802, most of the remaining dower slaves passed to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, to whom she bequeathed the only slave she held in her own name. There are few records of how the newly freed slaves fared.
29 de abr. de 2024 · George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy widow from Fairfax, Virginia, in 1759. This union brought him significant social standing and wealth, which included the Estates of the Custis family.
