help of friends and the love she had for her children.Without a master to run the plantation it soon suffered and was in great need for care that Martha was just not sure how to give. The slaves seemed to act up for her and the plantation soon became unprofitable, her advisors confronted her and said that she need to hire a manager to help out, it just wasn’t work for a woman to do. Martha kept the thought in mind, but instead of a manager for the plantation she found something more. She fell in love with George Washington. At a cotillion Martha was attending she was introduced to a military man that had fought in the French and Indian war for the British. She found George quite handsome and he was very good with her children. George had always had crush on his neighbor Sally Fairfax, but she married someone else so he too realized he had to find a bride for himself, and Martha seemed to be in with her warm personality and her good looks. She was nothing like Sally, for Sally was tall and slender and she was very intelligent but not the kind of woman to run a household very well. George seemed to have met the one other than Sally that he could be with for the rest of his life and on January 6, 1759 George Washington married Martha and they soon moved into the newly enlarged and remolded Mount Vernon, George’s plantation home. For this George resigned from the army and won a seat to become a Burgess. There Martha and George lived until the start of the war. Patsy became ill soon and Jacky was sent away to school. Jacky did poorly at school, he would simply rather be doing other gayer things than studying, and Patsy health decreased as a few years went Jacky decided he was in love and wanted to marry a young girl that would later be known as Nelly, but George didn’t think he was ready for marriage so he put it off. Patsy’s health finally failed her completely and she passed away. It was a hard hit on Martha and s...
