Martha Dandridge Custis by John Wollaston, 1757
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13 June 1731 at Chestnut Grove, the family plantation in New Kent County Virginia
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Martha Dandridge Custis by John Wollaston, 1757
Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.
Jefferson biographers express astonishment that the apprenticeship with Wythe lasted five full years, 1762 - 67, at a time when almost no one studied law for more than two. Patrick Henry studied not more than six weeks,
or so at least he told Jefferson, and Wythe for one was so convinced of the inadequacy of Henry’s training he refused to sign his license. Jefferson’s years under Wythe, years of virtually uninterrupted reading, not only in the law but also in ancient classics, English literature, and general political philosophy, were not so much an apprenticeship for law as an apprenticeship for greatness.