click image for close-up 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.

He acquired his own slaves at the age of eleven when his father died. After his marriage to Martha Custis, he also took over management of her slaves as well. But later in life, after his exposure ...

He was the father of Daniel Custis, first husband of Martha Washington who would, of course, go on to later marry George Washington, which is why historians first took interest in Custis.

Its origins have been obscured, with the slavery question... When Martha Custis married George Washington in 1759, according to Chadwick, she was a fat and amiable widow seeking a loving companion ...

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia’s colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...