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Mrs. Washington was bom on June 2, 1731 at Chestnut Grove Plantation in New Kent County, Virginia. She was the eldest of eight children. In 1750 Martha Washington married Daniel Parke Custis and the couple had four children in their seven years together, only two of which survived to see Mount Vernon. In 1757 Custis died and a year later, she began courting George Washington. The two were married in 1759.
Martha Washington moved to Mount Vernon in 1759 with her two children, John “Jack” Parke Custis and Martha “Patsy” Parke Custis. In 1773, Patsy died after having a seizure. In 1781, her only remaininjg child, Jack Parke Custis died of camp fever at Yorktown.
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