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[[Image:Martha Washington.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Martha Washington as a young woman]]
'''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]].
'''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]].
==Early life==
Martha Dandridge was born on June 2, 1731 to John and Frances Jones Dandridge on their plantation, Chestnut Grove. She was the eldest of nine children. According to her White House biography, ''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.'' [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html Biography] The White House.
==Marriage and family==
===First marriage===
Martha Dandridge married Colonel Daniel Parke Custis, a man twenty years her senior, on May 15, 1750. The couple lived in his father's Pumunkey River mansion, White House, where Custis managed the plantation for his father. They had four children: Daniel Parke Custis, Jr. (November 19, 1751 – February 19, 1754), Frances Parke Custis (April 12, 1753 – April 1, 1757), John "Jacky" Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) and Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773). Daniel Parke Custis died on July 8, 1757.
==During the war==
==First Lady==
==Back home at Mount Vernon==
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]].
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]].
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[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category: First Ladies]]
[[Category: First Ladies]]