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===Second marriage===
===Second marriage===
[[Image:Savage_The_Washington_Family.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|''The Washington Family'' (1789-1796) by [[Edward Savage]]]]
Martha was a 26-year-old, wealthy widow with two small children when she met George Washington in March 1758.<ref>[http://marthawashington.us/exhibits/show/martha-washington--a-life/the-custis-years/page-3 The courtship of Martha Custis and George Washington]</ref> They married on January 6, 1759 and moved, along with Jacky and Patsy, to [[Mount Vernon]], the plantation he inherited from his half-brother's widow, in April of that year.<ref name="history"/>
Martha was a 26-year-old, wealthy widow with two small children when she met George Washington in March 1758.<ref>[http://marthawashington.us/exhibits/show/martha-washington--a-life/the-custis-years/page-3 The courtship of Martha Custis and George Washington]</ref> They married on January 6, 1759 and moved, along with Jacky and Patsy, to [[Mount Vernon]], the plantation he inherited from his half-brother's widow, in April of that year.<ref name="history"/>
==During the war==
==During the war==
==First Lady==
==First Lady==
[[Image:Stuart Portrait of Martha Washington.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Martha Washington by [[Gilbert Stuart]].]]
[[Image:Stuart Portrait of Martha Washington.jpg|thumb|left|''Portrait of Martha Washington'' (1878) by Eliphalet Frazer Andrews]]
==Post-presidential life at Mount Vernon==
==Post-presidential life at Mount Vernon==