Martha Dandridge Custis Washington.

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Today we will be posting about our very first First Lady of America. Her name is Martha Washington. We are going to talk about basically her life and facts about her.



Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2nd 1731 to John and Frances Dandridge on her parents plantation named Chestnut Grove inside the British Colony. She was the eldest daughter of John Dandridge. On the day of May 15th 1750 at the age of 18 she married Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter who was two decades her senior. They lived on White House plantation on the south shore of Pamunkey River. She had 4 children with Daniel, named Daniel who had died at the age of three,Frances who died at age four,John who died at age 7,and Martha who died at 17. Then in 1757 the death of Daniel Parke Custis due to a heart attack, left age 25 Martha Dandrige Custis a widow. Martha Dandridge Custis age 27 and George Washington age 27 married on January 6th 1759 at the White House.



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Lauren Blanchard.