Caroline Branham
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Caroline Branham was an enslaved housemaid and seamstress of George and Martha Washington. She was married to Washington's hired groomsman Peter Hardiman, whose slaveholder was David Stuart. Branham g
Caroline Branham was standing behind the foot of George Washington's death bed, 1799. Cropped from a colored engraving of Death of Washington.
Junius Brutus Stearns, The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis. The painting recreated the scene of the wedding on January 6, 1759. Made in 1849, the couple are depicted on the right. Behind them stand Martha's two surviving children—John Parke and Martha—from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. George Washington adopted the children as his own.
Mount Vernon Estate, Mount Vernon, Virginia
George Washington welcoming Marquis de Lafayette to his home at Mount Vernon
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
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Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest surviving granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Washington and a step-grandchild of George Washington. She married Thomas Law, the
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association1836 portrait of Elizabeth Parke Custis by Sarah Miriam Peale, after a 1796 painting by Gilbert Stuart
Washington at Verplanck's Point, by John Trumbull, 1790