Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell

Oxford University Press

1998

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"Wealth and Houses in Post-Revolutionary Virginia"

Virginia Plantations

Edward A. Chappell and Julie Richter

1997

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Advertisement, "Virginia Planter's Best Tobacco"

Images of slavery

This label represents an idealized depiction of life in eighteenth-century Virginia tobacco country. It shows a white planter smoking a pipe, with slaves in the background holding hoes used to cultivate the crop. Another slave holds an umbrella to shade the planter (image courtesy of Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation).

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Daniel Parke Custis Account Book

Martha Washington's first marriage

Daniel Parke Custis

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Fry-Jefferson Map

Map of Virginia

One of the most famous maps produced in America before the Revolution, the Fry-Jefferson map was a survey of the Virginia/Maryland border. It was drawn in 1752 by surveyors Joshua Fry annd Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson). The area containing the locations where Martha Washington lived is visible on the map: Chestnut Grove on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County (where Martha was born); White House, the Custis plantation downriver from Chestnut Grove; and Mount Vernon (image courtesy of the Library of Virginia).

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