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George Washington with Mary Philipse

Before Martha Washington

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Before he met Martha (and before she was widowed), George Washington paid suit to Mary Philipse of New York. This 19th century image imagines the courtship.
George Washington with Mary Philipse

George Washington with Mary Philipse, image from 1890s

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Washington and Mary Philipse, lithograph, from Harper's Magazine, 1896, after an image by Howard Pyle.

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