The papers of Martha Washington / Jennifer E. Stertzer, director and editor in chief ; Kathryn Gehred and Mary K. Wigge, lead editors ; Alicia K. Anderson, Kim Curtis, Lynn A. Price, editors ; Thomas E. Dulan, [and 4 others], contributing editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802, author.

Contributor:

Stertzer, Jennifer E., editor.

Gehred, Kathryn, editor.

Wigge, Mary K., editor.

Anderson, Alicia K., editor.

Curtis, Kim, editor.

Price, Lynn A., editor.

Dulan, Thomas E., editor.

Washington Papers (Project), editors.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802--Correspondence.

Washington, Martha.

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802--Friends and associates.

Washington family--Manuscripts.

Washington family.

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Correspondence.

Presidents' spouses.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.

United States.

United States--History--1783-1815--Sources.

Manuscripts, American.

Friendship.

Genre:

History.

Manuscripts.

Personal correspondence.

Sources.

Physical Description:

lxv, 655 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : b University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The Papers of Martha Washington is the first scholarly edition of Martha Washington's correspondence, spanning her entire life, from her youth as a wealthy but largely unknown Virginian plantation mistress through her ascent to becoming an American icon. Her family letters (including the four letters and brief postcript that comprise her surviving correspondence with George Washington) make up most of the volume, bringing to light Martha Washington's personality in her own words. As she rose to fame, she began to correspond with such significant figures in American history as Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Willing Powel, and the Marquis de Lafayette, and this correspondence paints a picture of the social life during the Revolutionary War and the Early Republic. For periods where few documents survive, the editors have selected financial papers and third-party documents that fill in some of the blanks. The volume, which includes biographical directories, timelines, maps, editorial essays, a calendar of financial documents, and appendices in order to flesh out Martha Washington's world and her intricate family connections, will serve both as a valuable historical tool and a readable introduction to the life of America's first "First Lady.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Early Life, 1731

1758

James Power to Daniel Parke Custis, c. 1749

Bill from Robert Cary & Company to Daniel Parke Custis, 21 December 1752

Bill from Robert Cary & Company to Daniel Parke Custis, 9 January 1753

Bill from Robert Cary & Company to Daniel Parke Custis, 12 January 1753

James Kent to Daniel Parke Custis, 24 August 1754

Bill from Robert Cary & Company to Daniel Parke Custis, 11 December 1754

Robert Dinwiddie to Daniel Parke Custis, 15 August 1755

Daniel Parke Custis to Robert Cary & Company, 16 June 1756

Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, after 8 July 1757

From Robert Carter Nicholas, 7 August 1757

To Robert Cary & Company, 20 August 1757

To John Hanbury & Company, 20 August 1757

From Benjamin Waller, 30 August 1757

Power of Attorney, 6 September 1757

From John Hanbury & Company, 21 November 1757

From Robert Cary & Company, 26 November 1757

From James Gildart, 6 December 1757

To John Hanbury & Company, 20 December 1757

From John Mercer, 4 January 1758

From Robert Cary & Company, 1 March 1758

From Robert Cary & Company, 2 March 1758

Bill from Charles Crump, 6 March 1758

From John Mercer, 24 April 1758

To Robert Cary & Company, 1 June 1758

To John Hanbury & Company, 1 June 1758

Bill of Lading from John Wheldon, 5 June 1758

From Capel Hanbury, 23 June 1758

Thomas Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury, to John Moorey, 30 June 1758

From Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 6 July 1758

From Robert Cary & Company, 17 July 1758

From Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 12 September 1758

From John Mercer, 11 October 1758

From John Mercer, 2 November 1758

From Robert Cary & Company, 30 November 1758

From Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 26 December 1758

Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1758

Courtship and Marriage, 1759

1774

From Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 9 January 1759

From James Gildart, 21 February 1759

From Hill, Lamar & Hill, 29 March 1759

George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759

Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759

Capel & Osgood Hanbury to George Washington, 1 October 1759

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 18 April 1760

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 1 June 1760

To Margaret Bolan Green (Savage), 29 September 1760

To Margaret Bolan Green (Savage), 26 June 1761

To Margaret Bolan Green (Savage), 18 December 1761

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 6 April 1762

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 28 August 1762

To Mrs. Shelbury, 10 August 1764

To George Washington, c.30 March 1767

To Unknown, before 1768

To Hector Ross, 8 October 1770

From John Johnson, 21 March 1772

To Susanna Thorpe, 15 July 1772

George Washington to Burwell Bassett, Sr., 20 June 1773

From John Parke Custis, 5 July 1773

To Elizabeth Ramsay, 14 January 1774

To Robert Cary & Company, 1 June 1774

From Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, 16 July 1774

The Revolutionary War, 1775

1783

From George Washington, 18 June 1775

From George Washington, 23 June 1775

From Christian Scott Blackburn, 26 September 1775

From George Gilpin, 8 October 1775

To Joseph Davenport, 5 November 1775

To Elizabeth Ramsay, 30 December 1775

From Mercy Otis Warren, before 8 January 1776

To Mercy Otis Warren, 8 January 1776

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 31 January 1776

George and Martha Washington to Henry and Lucy Flucker Knox, 1 February 1776

To Mercy Otis Warren, 2 April 1776

From John Parke Custis, 9 June 1776

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 20 August 1776

From John Parke Custis, 21 August 1776

To Lund Washington, 23 October 1776

From Mercy Otis Warren, between 26 December 1776 and 6 March 1777

To George Washington, c.11 September 1777

To Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, 18 November 1777

To Burwell Bassett, Sr., 22 December 1777

To Mercy Otis Warren, 7 March 1778

From John Parke Custis, 3 April 1778

To Clement Biddle, 20 April 1778

To Bartholomew Dandridge, Sr., 2 November 1778

To John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis (Stuart), 19 March 1779

To Elizabeth Schuyler (Hamilton), between January and June 1780

To Samuel Blachley Webb, May 1780

To Joseph Reed, before 18 June 1780

To Burwell Bassett, Sr., 13 July 1780

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 20 September 1780

To Arthur Lee, 15 December 1780

To Charles Willson Peale, 26 December 1780

From Charles Willson Peale, 16 January 1781

To Lund Washington, c.31 May 1781

From Martha Mortier, 15 June 1781

George Washington to Martha Mortier, 21 June 1781

From John Parke Custis, 12 October 1781

George and Martha Washington to Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1781

82

George and Martha Washington to Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 13 February 1782

From George Washington, 1 October 1782

To Henry Knox, 6 March 1783

From Henry Knox, 8 March 1783

George Washington's Account of Martha Washington's Revolutionary War Travel Expenses, 1 July 1783

Mistress of Mount Vernon, 1784

1789

To Hannah Stockton Boudinot, 15 January 1784

To Hannah Bushrod Washington, 22 June 1784

To Frances Bassett (Washington Lear), 7 August 1784

From Mercy Otis Warren, 14 April 1785

To Mercy Otis Warren, 9 June 1785

George and Martha Washington to Thomas and Christian Scott Blackburn, 10 October 1785

To David Stuart, 6 November 1786

From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 30 November 1787

From John Dandridge, 18 January 1788

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 18 January 1788

To John Dandridge, c. 25 January 1788

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 25 February 1788

From John Dandridge, 29 February 1788

George and Martha Washington to Thomas and Sarah Ramsay Porter, 19 May 1788

To Anna Welsh, 8 December 1788

To John Dandridge, 20 April 1789

First First Lady, 1789

1797

From Clement Biddle, 30 April 1789

Bill from Gray's Ferry and Gardens, 22 May 1789

From Clement Biddle, 24 May 1789

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 8 June 1789

To Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, 30 August 1789

Ann Carter Champe Willis to George and Martha Washington, 18 September 1789

George and Martha Washington to David Stuart, 21 September 1789

To Abigail Smith Adams, 20 October 1789

Robert Lewis to Ann Carter Champe Willis, c.20 October 1789

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 22 October 1789

To Abigail Smith Adams, 4 November 1789

From Mercy Otis Warren, 27 November 1789

To Abigail Smith Adams, 8 December 1789

To Mercy Otis Warren, 26 December 1789

From Mercy Otis Warren, c. 30 December 1789

March 1790

To Clement Biddle: Four Letters, 1789

1790

I. To Clement Biddle, 1789-90

II. To Clement Biddle, 1789

90

III. To Clement Biddle, 1789

IV. To Clement Biddle, 1789

To Cornelia Tappen Clinton, 1789

From Cornelia Tappen Clinton, 1789

George and Martha Washington to Alexander Hamilton, January 1790

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 22 March 1790

George and Martha Washington to Robert Morris, 27 March 1790

To Abigail Smith Adams, 12 May 1790

To Mercy Otis Warren, 12 June 1790

George and Martha Washington to John and Abigail Smith Adams, 14 June 1790

To Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, 7 July 1790

From John Lamb, 10 December 1790

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 17 January 1791

To Abigail Smith Adams, 25 January 1791

To Janet Livingston Montgomery, 29 January 1791

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 19 April 1791

To Abigail Smith Adams, 30 May 1791

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 5 June 1791

From Abigail Smith Adams, 25 June 1791

To Sarah Fishbourne Mifflin Bordley, 25 June 1791

96

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 29 August 1791

To Abigail Smith Adams, 4 September 1791

To Martha Washington Dandridge (Halyburton), 5 September 1791

From John Dandridge, 6 September 1791

To Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, 1791

95

From Anonymous, 3 February 1792

From Anonymous, 7 February 1792

From John Lamb, 22 March 1792

George and Martha Washington to Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford, 23 March 1792

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 22 April 1792

From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 14 May 1792

Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel to George and Martha Washington, 8 June 1792

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 1 July 1792

From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 16 July 1792

From John Lamb, 30 November 1792

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 3 December 1792

From George Bateman, December 1792

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 21 January 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 8 February 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 10 February 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 18 February 1793

George and Martha Washington to Elizabeth Willing Powel, 21 February 1793

From John Hewson, 27 February 1793

George and Martha Washington to Tristram and Ruth Hooper Dalton and Miss Dalton, 1 March 1793

From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 10 March 1793

From Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), March 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 21 April 1793

George and Martha Washington to Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 24 April 1793

To Abigail Smith Adams, April

May 1793

From the Editors of The Lady's Magazine, 18 May 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 2 June 1793

To Harriott Pinckney Horry, 14 June 1793

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 4 August 1793

To Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, c.9 September 1793

Contents note continued: Elizabeth Willing Powel to George and Martha Washington, 9 September 1793

From the Countess of Buchan, 8 January 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 14 January 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 10 February 1794

To Mary Ann Aitken (Campbell), 24 February 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 2 March 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 16 March 1794

To Giuseppe Ceracchi, 17 March 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 23 March 1794

Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot to George and Martha Washington, 11 April 1794

George and Martha Washington to Jose de Jaudenes y Nebot, 11 April 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 13 April 1794

To Charles Whitlock, 14 April 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 25 May 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 2 June 1794

From Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), between 2 June and 13 July 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 15 June 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 30 June 1794

From Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), after 30 June 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 14 July 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 27 July 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 3 August 1794

To Mary Stillson Lear, 24 August 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 15 September 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 29 September 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 18 October 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 22 October 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 10 November 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 22 November 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 30 November 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 15 December 1794

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 25 February 1795

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 9 March 1795

From R. G. C. Clifford, 30 March 1795

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 6 April 1795

To Charles Whitlock, 29 April 1795

George and Martha Washington to William and Euphemia White Patterson, 6 May 1795

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 10 May 1795

From Ruthey Jones, 12 May 1795

To Frances Bassett Washington (Lear), 24 May 1795

From Sarah Hallowell Vaughan, 29 July 1795

To Elizabeth Dandridge Aylett Henley, 24 September 1795

To Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis), 3 January 1796

To Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis), 14 January 1796

George and Martha Washington to Catharine Littlefield Greene (Miller), Cornelia Lott Greene (Skipwith Littlefield), and Martha Washington Greene Nightingale (Turner), 25 January 1796

To Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis) January

February 1796

George and Martha Washington to Thomas Law, 28 March 1796

George and Martha Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 March 1796

George Washington to Andrew Parks, 7 April 1796

To Catharine Scott Brown, 10 April 1796

From John Trumbull, 7 October 1796

To Mary Stillson Lear, 4 November 1796

From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 7 December 1796

From F. St. Mary, 17 December 1796

To Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis), December 1796

To John Trumbull, 12 January 1797

From Abigail Smith Adams, 9 February 1797

To Abigail Smith Adams, 20 February 1797

Matriarch, 1797

1800

To Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller, 3 March 1797

From John Trumbull, 25 April 1797

To Catharine Meade Fitzsimons, 30 April 1797

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1 May 1797

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 20 May 1797

To David Humphreys, 26 June 1797

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 14 July 1797

To Elizabeth Dandridge Aylett Henley, 20 August 1797

To Elizabeth Dandridge Aylett Henley, 22 November 1797

To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 18 December 1797

To Jane Dennison Fairfax, 1797-99

From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 7 January 1798

To Henrietta Marchant Liston, 22 February 1798

To Sarah Cary Fairfax, 17 May 1798

From Louis Guillaume Valentin DuBourg, 20 July 1798

To Charles Simms, 14 October 1798

To Mary Stead Pinckney, 20 April 1799

From Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, 13 August 1799

George and Martha Washington to Mary White Morris, 21 September 1799

To Frances Dandridge Henley (Lear), 30 November 1799

From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 24 December 1799

From Maria S. Ross, 24 December 1799

From Abigail Smith Adams, 25 December 1799

From Mary Stead Pinckney, 26 December 1799

From John Adams, 27 December 1799

Enclosure: Congressional Resolutions, 24 December 1799

From Mary White Morris, 27 December 1799

From Bushrod Washington, 27 December 1799

From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 30 December 1799

To John Adams, 31 December 1799

From Jedediah Huntington, 31 December 1799

To Abigail Smith Adams, 1 January 1800

Tobias Lear to John Adams, 1 January 1800

From William Stephens Smith, 1 January 1800

From Elias Boudinot, 2 January 1800

From Elizabeth Washington Spotswood, 2 January 1800

From Ann Moore Huntington, 4 January 1800

From Bushrod Washington, 4 January 1800

To Maria S. Ross, 10 January 1800

Tobias Lear to William Stephens Smith, 10 January 1800

From the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 11 January 1800

From Alexander Hamilton, 12 January 1800

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Mary Stead Pinckney, 12 January 1800

From Samuel Miller, 14 January 1800

Tobias Lear to Jedediah Huntington, 15 January 1800

To Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 15 January 1800

From Stephen Williamson, 16 January 1800

From Henry Knox, 17 January 1800

From Samuel Bayard, 18 January 1800

Tobias Lear to Elias Boudinot, 18 January 1800

Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 23 January 1800

From Joseph T. Scott, 25 January 1800

From Bushrod Washington, 26 January 1800

Tobias Lear to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 27 January 1800

Tobias Lear to Samuel Miller, 27 January 1800

From the Earl of Buchan, 28 January 1800

From Richard Varick, 28 January 1800

From Richard Washington, 31 January 1800

From Theodore Sedgwick, 4 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Samuel Bayard, 5 February 1800

From David Austin, Jr., 8 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 9 February 1800

From Uzal Ogden, 11 February 1800

To Martha Laurens Ramsey, 13 February 1800

From "A Society of Females," 14 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Theodore Sedgwick, 15 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Richard Varick, 15 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Uzal Ogden, 17 February 1800

From Theodore Sedgwick, 17 February 1800

From David Humphreys, 22 February 1800

Tobias Lear to Theodore Sedgwick, 22 February 1800

From Catherine Livingston Garrettson, 27 February 1800

From Lafayette, 28 February 1800

From William Augustine Washington, 4 March 1800

From Auguste Belin, 5 March 1800

From William Rogers, 6 March 1800

Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 8 March 1800

From Mason Locke Weems, 8 March 1800

From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, before 10 March 1800

From Janet Livingston Montgomery, 10 March 1800

Tobias Lear to Gilbert Stuart, 10 March 1800

To "A Society of Females," 12 March 1800

To Catherine Livingston Garrettson, 15 March 1800

From Timothy Pickering, 17 March 1800

From Theodore Foster, 18 March 1800

From Charles Humphrey Atherton, 23 March 1800

From George Washington Motier Lafayette, 24 March 1800

From James Madison, 24 March 1800

From James Kemp, 26 March 1800

From Thomas Porter, 26 March 1800

From Peleg Wadsworth, 26 March 1800

From John Durburrow Blair, 27 March 1800

Tobias Lear to Theodore Foster, 28 March 1800

Tobias Lear to Timothy Pickering, 28 March 1800

Tobias Lear to William Rogers, 28 March 1800

From William Cunningham, Jr., 2 April 1800

From "A Society of Females," 2 April 1800

From Clement Biddle, 5 April 1800

Tobias Lear to John Durburrow Blair, 5 April 1800

Tobias Lear to James Madison, 5 April 1800

To Janet Livingston Montgomery, 5 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Peleg Wadsworth, 5 April 1800

From Gouverneur Morris, 7 April 1800

From Timothy Pickering, 7 April 1800

Enclosure: Act of Congress, 3 April 1800

From Henry Lee, 10 April 1800

Peleg Wadsworth to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1800

From William Griffith, 14 April 1800

From John Singer Dexter, 15 April 1800

From Theodore Sedgwick, 15 April 1800

From Joseph Willard, 16 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 20 April 1800

Tobias Lear to James Kemp, 20 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Henry Lee, 20 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Timothy Pickering, 20 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Charles Humphrey Atherton, 23 April 1800

Tobias Lear to William Griffith, 23 April 1800

Tobias Lear to Gouverneur Morris, 23 April 1800

From A. Gay, 28 April 1800

From John Russell and John West, 28 April 1800

From Jean Le Mayeur, 1 May 1800

From Robert Lewis, 1 May 1800

Tobias Lear to John Singer Dexter, 6 May 1800

Tobias Lear to John Russell and John West, 12 May 1800

Tobias Lear to Auguste Belin, 15 May 1800

Tobias Lear to William Cunningham, Jr., 15 May 1800

Tobias Lear to Jean Le Mayeur, 15 May 1800

From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 25 May 1800

From John Sinclair, 2 June 1800

Tobias Lear to William Moffatt, 6 June 1800

Tobias Lear to Joseph Willard, 6 June 1800

From Mary Shreve, 1 July 1800

From David Humphreys, 5 July 1800

From James Anderson, 21 July 1800

From David Hale, 24 July 1800

Tobias Lear to David Humphreys, 24 July 1800

Death and Estate, 1800

1802

From Charles Lee, 19 September 1800

Contents note continued: Martha Washington's Last Will and Testament, 22 September 1800

4 March 1802

Tobias Lear to John Nicholson, 6 October 1800

Tobias Lear to Isaiah Thomas & Alexander Thomas, 6 October 1800

Tobias Lear to David Hale, 31 October 1800

To Lafayette, 31 October 1800

To Mary Stillson Lear, 11 November 1800

From Robert Lewis, c.1800

To Martha Washington Dandridge (Halyburton), 12 February 1801

Robert Lewis to the Executors of George Washington's Estate, on or before 7 March 1801

Lawrence Lewis to Thomas Law, 2 May 1801

To Tobias Lear, 19 May 1801

To Nicholas Rogers, 10 September 1801

To Richard Varick, 15 December 1801

To Winthrop Sargent, 30 March 1802

To Edward Stabler, 22 April 1802

To Mr. Foster, n.d.

Recipes, n.d.

I. Recipe for Cough Medicine, n.d.

II. Recipe for Great Cake, n.d.

Appendices

A. Martha Washington's Inventory, 24 May

11 July 1802

I. Draft Inventory, 24 May

II. Final Inventory, 24 May

B. Division of Dower Slaves, c. June 1802

C. Public Estate Sale Account, 20 July 1802

D. Calendar of Martha Washington's Financial Papers

E. Spurious Correspondence and Forgeries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813948492

0813948495

OCLC:

1261774696