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.

Martha Dandridge was born in 1731 into a gentrified family of considerable, though not extravagant, wealth, in New Kent County, Virginia. Throughout her girlhood, and until she married George ...

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

George Washington was Martha’s second husband. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, a prominent Virginia landowner and enslaver, in 1750. They had four children, two of whom ...

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.

Before Martha married the first U.S. president George Washington, she was married to Daniel Custis, who died in 1757.

He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha Washington. She married future U.S. President George Washington after Custis’ son Daniel died.

On Jan. 6, 1796, George Washington, the sitting president in the temporary capital of Philadelphia, wrote a long letter to his teenage step-granddaughter with relationship advice.

Summary Presents descriptions and images of portraits of the first U.S. president George Washington (1732-1799) and his wife Martha Washington (1732-1802), presented by the National Portrait Gallery ...