Browse Items (1 total)
Will of Martha Washington
Martha Washington’s will is in the hand of her granddaughter Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and was signed in September 1800. It was probated in June 1802. The will is mostly concerned with bequests of specific household goods to family…
Tags
- slavery
- race
- class
- sociability
- courtship
- religion
- remarriage
- ona judge
- childrearing
- first lady
- family life
- death
- estate
- will
- custis
- dandridge
- marriage
- planter
- servant
- fugitive
- gender
- society
- republican court
- jacky
- children
- illness
- dower
- architecture
- political role
- episcopal
- letter
- correspondence
- material culture
- painting
- pamphlet
- article
- photograph
- consumer
- revolution
- generals wife
- war
- map
- plantation
- Mount Vernon
- white house
- chestnut grove
- latrobe
- medicine
- household
- legacy
- newspaper
- planter class
- mistress
- portrait
- martha washington
- peale
- george washington
- music
- early life
- childhood
- dandrige
- feme sole
- feme covert
- secondary
- social
- biography
- new kent
- retirement
- republican mother
- mortality
- custis estate
- bill
- tobacco
- consumer goods
- power of attorney
- daniel parke custis
- tax
- travel
- george
- clothing
- receipt
- epilepsy
- childbirth
- loan
- debt
- health
- housekeeping
- mt. vernon
- fashion