The lap desk that Mike, from Birmingham, Alabama, brought to the ROADSHOW in Mobile in the summer of 2006 is a fantastic illustration of how the value of an elegant, if unremarkable, antique can ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969. "National ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Born New Kent County, Virginia In 1749, Martha Dandridge married Daniel Parke Custis, the wealthiest planter in the ...

On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever. When she married George Washington in January 1759, she was twenty-seven years old and a widowed ...

Three months after George Washington became engaged to Martha Dandridge Custis, he penned a love letter to Sally Cary Fairfax, the wife of a neighbor and close friend: “I feel the force of her amiable ...

• In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County, Virginia. • In 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail gave the first successful public demonstration of their ...