Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty

Illustrations. Preface. Introduction. Twenty-Five Miles as the Crow Flies from Williamsburg. "Joh Dandridge's Daughter". A Young Matron and Her Family. The Widow Custis. George Washington, His Family and Friends. A Twelfth Night Wedding. Halcyon Days. Uneasy Times. Sudden Changes and Milestones. "Mrs. Washington, a Warm Loyalist". "I Doe My Dear Sister Most Religiously Wish There Was an End to the Matter". "General Washington's Lady, an Example of Persistent Industry". "A Dreary Kind of Place". Middlebrook and Morristown. "We Look Upon the Americans as Already at Our Feet". A Long Time Going Home. "Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree". "The General Is Gone to New York". "A State Prisoner". Philadelphia. "Duty and Inclination". Transitions. "Once More, Under Our Own Vine and Fig Tree". "No More Trials to Pass Through". Epilogue. A Culinary Lagniappe: Recipes from Martha Washington's Books of Cookery and Book of Sweetmeats. Notes. Bibliography. Index.