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Images: 2 A tribute to worth by his friends, painted by S. Billy Costin Image 2. Comments: 1 [hide] [show]. Login to post a comment. Mary Gossage. It would be lovely to be able to connect theses folk to their progeny. Wikidata item. African American activist and scholar c. For the public servant in Queensland, see William Charles Costin.

Early life [ edit ]. Career [ edit ]. Legal challenge [ edit ]. Challenge to Surety Bond Law [ edit ]. Personal life [ edit ]. Marriage [ edit ]. Funeral [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Washington Case No. Term, ". Paul: West Pub. OCLC Retrieved 1 February Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. History of the Negro Race in America.

New York: Bergman Publishers. Retrieved 2 February An Imperfect God: Maj. ISBN Retrieved May 23, Martha Washington, First Lady of Liberty. Hanover Square. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression. New York: Routledge. Anne Dandridge Redd - abt. Anne Redd formerly Dandridge. Born in Prince Edward Co.

Mother of Ann Dandridge Redd Dalton. Died about at about age 44 in Orange, Orange Co. Profile last modified 29 Sep Created 3 Jul Tradition identifies the Jones family as originating from Wales, with a Macon family that married into the Joneses being French Huguenots. Birth Order and Siblings: Eldest child; three brothers and five sisters, John Dandridge , William Dandridge , Bartholomew Dandridge , Anna Maria "Fanny" Dandridge Bassett , Frances Dandridge , Elizabeth Dandridge Aylett Henley , Mary Dandridge ; allegedly her younger illegitimate half-sister date of birth unrecorded was a slave; Ann Dandridge Costin, was said to be one-quarter African, one-quarter Cherokee Indian and half-white; there is further evidence of an illegitimate half-brother Ralph Dandridge date of birth unrecorded , who was probably all white.

Physical Appearance: No extant record but tradition identifies as being less than five feet tall; dark brown hair. Education: Informal education; trained at home in music, sewing, household management. Later knowledge of plantation management, crop sales, homeopathic medicine, animal husbandry suggests a wider education than previously thought.

Probably taught by indentured Dandridge family servant Thomas Leonard, and regularly tutored for about five years until the age of 12 or 13 at Poplar Grove Plantation, the home of a friend of the Chamberlayne family. Occupation before Marriage: No documentation suggesting to the contrary, it has been assumed that Martha Washington's youth was spent much as others of her class and gender were, preparing for management of a plantation, learning various needlework arts, playing a musical instrument and perhaps singing and dancing.

They lived at a mansion called "White House," on the Pumunkey River.

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Nineteen years old when she married a man who was twenty years her senior, and then 26 when she was widowed with two children, Martha Custis had considerable power through her wealth and privileged social status. Evidence of her business acumen in the lucrative tobacco trade is found in letters she wrote to the London merchants who handled the exporting of the large Custis crop output.

It has been asserted by many of George Washington's biographers that these factors made her potential as a wife an attractive and important factor in his courting of her. They lived at estate "Mount Vernon," initially leased from his half-brother Lawrence's widow, and inherited upon her death. Occupation after Marriage: With her extremely large inheritance of land from the Custis estate and the vast farming enterprise at Mount Vernon, Martha Washington spent considerable time directing the large staff of slaves and servants.

While George Washington oversaw all financial transactions related to the plantation, Martha Washington was responsible for the not insubstantial process of harvesting, preparing, and preserving herbs, vegetables, fruits, meats, and dairy for medicines, household products and foods needed for those who lived at Mount Vernon, relatives, slaves and servants - as well as long-staying visitors.

She lent her name to support a formal effort to enlist women of the colonies to volunteer on behalf of the Continental Army. It involved her writing to the wives of all the colonial governors and asking them to encourage the women of their colonies to make not only financial contributions but to sew and gather necessary supplies for the Continental Army.