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George Washington’s Step Great Grandson-in-Law Slept Here

Martha Washington had a first husband.  At 19 she married a wealthy, significantly older planter, Daniel Parke Custis, and lived with him at White House Plantation in Virginia until his death in 1757.  Two years later, Martha, 27, married George, … Continue reading

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