The Washingtons Wed

Published 2022-05-20
Hear about the courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis from their perspectives.

All Comments (15)
  • @shoot2win506
    PLEASE continue with this!!!! Mrs & Mr Washington are simply wonderful together!!!!
  • @user-oj5bw7sl8p
    ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT! Thank you very much for this really interesting video.
  • @dwarden7829
    I had an opportunity, briefly, to interact with these two while visiting CW. It was very nice to see that they are as charming in person as they are while acting in these videos. Much appreciation to CW and those that portray the personalities we get to see and hear while stepping back into history, for a moment. ❤
  • @scorpiamusic
    If anyone from the AI/CI department at CW sees this comment: this is awesome! I wish you had been doing these while I was a CW sound tech.
  • @TheDansonT
    How I feel now with my fiancé, the love of my life.
  • @NeTxGrl
    I believe they loved one another, but more like a brother, sister kind of love. It was never a lusty, romantic relationship. They were compatible, she was what he needed in a wife and he was what she needed in a husband. She was a great support for him during the war. One of the things that led me to this conclusion was this. GW was selling some of his furniture at the end of his presidency. He sold his writing desk to a friend named Eliza Powell. A Philadelphia socialite, one of the people that talked GW into doing a second term. In the writing desk she found a stack of unopened letters Martha had written to George. She tripled sealed the letters and along with a letter of her own she sent them back to GW. In her letter she stated how she had found the letters and tripled sealed them against prying eyes as well as assuring him she had not peaked as she assumed the missives were love letters. GW wrote back to her thanking her but he added (and I'm paraphrasing) that anyone reading the letters that Martha sent to him would be sorely disappointed in that the letters would only be of friendship, there would be no romance or carnal lust
  • @bumblybeeez
    Is Colonel Washington still at Williamsburg? I can't find him at all on the schedule.
  • @pgadeb
    Fun! But....what about Sally F. who took care of George during his sickness. ;)