Labels:text | screenshot | human face | software | web page | website OCR: Presidents & First Ladies 5 X File Edit View Go Help Print Martha Dandridge Custis Washington Back Home Font Page 0 Martha Dandridge Custis Washington 1731-1802 [George Washington] Biography: "I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else, there is certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from ... " So in one of her surviving letters, Martha Washington confided to a niece that she did not entirely enjoy her role as first of First Ladies. She once conceded that "many younger and gayer women would be extremely pleased" in her place; she would "much rather be at home".
