Cary, Louis F. Martha Washington: First Lady of the Land. New York: Chelsea Juniors, 1991.

Cary, Wilson Miles. "The Dandridges of Virginia," The William & Mary Quarterly, 5 1 (July, 1896): 30-39.

Chappell, Edward A., and Julie Richter.  "Wealth and Houses in Post-Revolutionary Virginia," Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, vol. 7 (1997):  3-22.

Clark, Ellen McCallister. Martha Washington: A Brief Biography. Mount Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2002.

Conkling, Margaret C. Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington. New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860.

Crowson, Elmer Thomas. Life as Revealed Through Early American Court Records: Including the Story of Col. John Custus of Arlington, Queen's Creek, and Williamsburg. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

Custis, George Washington Parke, and Benson John Lossing. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860.

Dalzell, Robert F. "Constructing Independence: Monticello, Mount Vernon, and the Men Who Built Them." Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 4 (Summer 1993): 543-580.

Dalzell, Robert F., and Lee Baldwin Dalzell.  George Washington's Mount Vernon:  At Home in Revolutionary Virginia.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1998.

DeButts, Mary Custis Lee, ed. Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee. Chapel Hill: Published for the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association by the University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Sunday, 3/23/1856

“[Sunday, 3/23/1856] I had forgotten that during the time my journal was discontinued, dear old Mammy died about seventy-eight years old. One morning before Christmas, when Sister went to carry her julip she was cold & lifeless, but O I trust her spirit is in Heaven. She was as faithful as could be. How I missed her Christmas. When we paid the servants our usual visits there was one pair of steep steps up which I had no cause to go. She is the last but two of the Mt. Vernon servants. What tales she could tell of “those good old times” of Mrs. Washington’s beauty & good management. How “she was one of the out-door gals & would run to open the gate for the Gen.” And when my beautiful Aunt Lewis was married “how ole Mistis let all the servants come in to see it & gave them such good things to eat,” “how Ole Mistis was dressed so splendid, in a light flowered satin your Aunt Lewis all in something white, beautiful too.” But though a celebrated beauty she did not come up to “Ole Mistis” in Mammy’s eyes! she [sic] could not see why so much fuss was made over “the genl, he was only a man!”, a very good master she was sure, but she didn’t suppose he was so much better than anyone else.” O those nice talks! we [sic] won’t have any more….”