Martha Washington

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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (New Kent County, Virginia, June 2, 1731 - Mount Vernon, May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington and the first First Lady of the United States of America.

Oldest daughter of John and Frances Dandridge, she was born June 2, 1731, on a plantation near Williamsburg. Typical for a girl in an 18th-century family, her education was almost negligible except in domestic and social skills, but she learned all the arts of a well-ordered household and how to keep a family contented. Biography The White House.

She married George Washington on January 6, 1759. When his career led him to the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War and finally to the Presidency, she followed him bravely. Ibidem They lie buried at Mount Vernon.

Portrait of Martha Washington by Gilbert Stuart.

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