Feb 2, 2021
5 min read
Martha Washington’s Enslaved People
What You Didn’t Know About the First, First Family
Martha Dandridge got married when she was 18-years-old; not to George, that came later. She had a lot going for her; she came from a wealthy family and was fairly well educated in a time when most women weren’t given the opportunity. She married a man 20 years her senior, Daniel Parke Custis, who had a 17,000-acre…
