That have grown from inside the a huge members of the family, she loved students and expected getting significantly more

That have grown from inside the a huge members of the family, she loved students and expected getting significantly more

Widowhood

Since the an earlier, attractive, rich widow, Martha Dandridge Custis probably appreciated a lot more versatility to choose her very own future than at any most other part of this lady lives. She was only twenty-half a dozen years old, had almost three hundred enslaved individuals and had more than 17,500 acres off belongings- value over ?forty,one hundred thousand. Continue reading That have grown from inside the a huge members of the family, she loved students and expected getting significantly more