Behind them stand Martha's two children from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis, and other guests. Washington adopted the children as his own. On her wedding day, a woman in the colonies ...

The Society of Martha Washington Colonial Pageant and Ball ... she’s been the President of the organization and all three of our children have come out as escorts or a Deb,” Russell Lee ...

Enslaved women in the 18th and early 19th century were often forced to labor in the fields or in an urban setting like ...

click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789, it included Martha Custis Washington, the wealthy widow ...