Washington's Revolution: The Making Of America's First Leader - Plot & Excerpts
Martha was a widow with two children, twenty-eight years old, pretty rather than beautiful, and extraordinarily wealthy. Her children—Patsy, two years old, and Jack, four—were healthy and much loved by their mother. More than her money made Martha attractive to young men. She was a gentle person, thoughtful, free of pretensions—she once described herself as “a fine, healthy girl”—and apparently charmed by Washington when she first met him, in March 1758.Although Washington at the time may have been in love with another woman—Sally Fairfax, his neighbor at nearby Belvoir plantation—he found Martha Custis to have attractions of her own. Yet they were not so good as to wash away the feeling he harbored for Sally. Sally Fairfax, the wife of his close friend George William Fairfax, seems to have felt affection for Washington, but she never hinted that she was willing to give up her marriage for him. Nor did he wish to endure the scandal, and the loss of George Fairfax’s friendship, by engaging in an affair with her.
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