The Washington-Custis Connection More on Martha Custis Washington, America's first First Lady. Mar 26, 2007 BY Ben Phelan ...

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. Junius Brutus Stears ...

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on a Virginia plantation in 1732. Her father was a wealthy planter and slave owner, prominent in Williamsburg society. At the age of 18, she married Daniel ...

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 ...

Martha and George adopted John’s two youngest children, daughter Nelly and son Washy (George Washington Custis) after his widow remarried and moved West of the Allegheny.

Like most males then and since, George Washington did his best to squirm out of having his picture done. It took all the prodding and blandishments of his wife Martha to make him agree to have ...

Born in New Kent County, Virginia, in 1731, Martha Custis Washington was the first “First Lady” of the United States.

He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha Washington. She married future U.S. President George Washington after Custis’ son Daniel died.

Custis died in 1857, leaving Martha a wealthy, but young, widow. She met and married George Washington two years later. During the winters of the Revolutionary War, Martha Washington traveled to army ...