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27 ago 2024 · In 1749, at age 18, she married Daniel Parke Custis, who was 20 years her senior and an heir to a neighboring 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.
- Betty Boyd Caroli
4 set 2024 · As she grew into her teens, Martha began a courtship with a local planter’s son, Daniel Parke Custis. Custis’ family opposed the relationship, as they had a higher level of wealth than the Dandridges.
3 giorni fa · 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 ]
5 set 2024 · Immediately on resigning his commission, Washington was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two children living and two dead, and possessed one of the considerable fortunes of Virginia.
26 ago 2024 · Through his marriage in 1759 to Martha Dandridge Custis, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis, he acquired another eighty-four enslaved men and women—but he did not legally own these so-called dower slaves.
5 giorni fa · By the time of Washington's death in 1799 there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon. 124 were owned outright by Washington, 40 were rented, and the remainder were dower slaves owned by the estate of Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on behalf of their grandchildren.
26 ago 2024 · 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. Washington and Custis married at a Custis house on the Pamunkey River on January 6, 1759.
