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Birth of Martha Dandridge (Washington)
Martha Dandridge is born at Chestnut Grove Plantation, New Kent County, Virginia to John Dandridge and Frances Jones. Portrait of Martha Dandridge Custis, John Wollaston, oil on canvas, 1757. Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. [U1918.1.1] https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/martha-washington/biography/ -
Birth of Abigail Smith (Adams)
Abigail Smith is born at Weymouth, Massachusetts to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy. The earliest known image of Abigail Adams painted at the time of her marriage. (original source unknown) http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2 -
Birth of Theodosia Stillwell Bartow (Burr)
Theodosious Bartow died in a carriage accident in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, in 1746 at age 34, while his wife Ann was pregnant with their only child, Theodosia Bartow. For five years Ann raised Theodosia as a single parent, apparently partially in Shrewsbury and partially in New York City where several of her sisters and brothers were living. http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/01/theodosia-prevost-burr.html -
Birth of Martha Wayles (Jefferson)
Martha is born to John Wayles & Martha Eppes Wayles in "The Forest" Plantation, Charles City County, VA. Only a silhouette survives of Martha; some visitors left descriptions of her as being of medium to tall height, w auburn hair. A 1965 oil portrait of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson by artist George Geygan, based on contemporary descriptions of her physical attributes and executed 183 years after her death. http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=3 -
Martha Dandridge marries Daniel Parke Custis
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. -
Death of Daniel Parke Custis
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Martha Dandridge Custis marries Colonel George Washington
Martha married Colonel George Washington at 27 years old at "White House," in New Kent County. "The marriage of Washington to Martha Custis, 1758." Painting by Stearns. https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/martha-washington/george-and-martha-washingtons-relationship/ -
Theodosia Bartow marries James Marcus Prevost
In 1763 Theodosia Bartow married James Marcus Prevost in Tritnity Church, NY. Prevost was a British Army officer with whom she had five children. They lived in Bergen County, New Jersey, in a home they named the Hermitage. In 1776 James Marcus was called back to active duty in the Revolutionary War, while Theodosia tried to keep their home from being confiscated by the American government. -
Abigail Smith marries John Adams
Abigail Smith, 19 years old, married John Adam in the Smith Family Home at Waymouth, MA. They were married by her father, the Reverend Smith.
Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, c. 1766, pastel on paper by American artist Benjamin Blyth (1746–1811). https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1142-abigail-and-john-adams-remember-the-ladies -
Martha Wayles marries Bathurst Skelton
Martha married at age 18 years old, to Bathurst Skelton on 20, November 1766 likely at " The Forest " plantation; they lived at his Charles City County plantation for one year and ten months. Bathurst died in 1768. -
Martha Wayles Skelton marries Thomas Jefferson
Martha married Thomas Jefferson at " The Forest " plantation; they departed for a honeymoon in the cottage on the property of what would become later famously known as Monticello, though the mansion house was not yet built. -
Start of the American Revolutionary War
The Shot Heard Round the World - The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord. -
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Death of James Marcus Prevost
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Theodosia Bartow Prevost marries Aaron Burr
On July 2, 1782, 35-year-old Theodosia Prevost, with five children, married 25-year-old Aaron Burr at the Hermitage. After the wedding Theodosia and Aaron settled in Albany, where he developed his law practice. The newlyweds moved to New York City the following year, after the British evacuation in 1783. -
Death of Martha Jefferson
Martha Jefferson died at age 33, after giving birth to their sixth child Lucy Elizabeth (1782 - 1784). More than two months later Jefferson haltingly wrote to a French officer and friend, Marquis de Chastellux, that he was... “emerging from the stupor of mind which had rendered me as dead to the world as [she] was whose . . . loss occasioned it.”
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End of the American Revolutionary War
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Thomas Jefferson - Minister to France
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George Washington Presidential Term
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Death of Theodosia Burr
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John Adams Presidential Term
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Thomas Jefferson Presidency
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Death of Martha Washington
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Death of Abigail Adams
Burial: First Unitarian Church, Quincy Massachusetts
*Not only is Abigail Adams buried beside her husband but also along with their son, the sixth President and his wife, John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams.
