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Little is known of their courtship, except that they married less than a year after the death of Daniel Parke Custis and that Washington visited White House (the Custis's home) two times before their engagement. (Their grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, has written of love at first site but there is no evidence to support this claim.) The wedding of George and Martha Washington was the social event of 1758/5 in Virginia. Although this was truly a marriage of convenience (Washington gained land and social standing, Martha gained a husband needed to run the plantation and business dealings), the couple never quarreled and seemed genuinely fond of each other. Although they never had children of their own, George raised Martha's two children from her first marriage. During the first year of his marriage, Washington wrote to a friend "I am now I believe fixd at this Seat (Mt. Vernon) with an agreeable Consort for life..."
Courtship (in colonial America) Earle, Alice Morse "Customs and Fashions in Old New England" Corner House Publishers, Williamstown MA c. 1983 Fields, Joseph E. "Worthy Partner" Greenwood Press, Connecticut c. 1994 Garrison, Webb "Love, Lust, and Longing in the White House” Cumberland House, Tennessee. C. 2000 Miller, John C. "The First Frontier, Life in Colonial America", University Press of America Lanham, MD c. 1966 Taylor, Dale "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America' Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH c. 1997
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