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January 15th, 2017

1/15/2017

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I now set about sharing with you'll the courtship and romance between Martha Danridge Custis and her second, soon-to-be husband, George Washington. For George it was his first and only marriage; although unlikely not his first and only romance. Colonial Wenches certainly saw to that as he was one of the most sought after area bachlors.

The challenge of sharing comes because Martha burned most of George's romantic letters to her from the West and we no not what happened to her letters to him. However, bits and pieces of the former do exist, I have my diary entries from that time, and Martha was kind enough to have me over often for tea and talk. She sometimes would share their plans and dreams.

Even from afar, she was able to change his focus on being a great soldier to wanting romance, a wife, to be a good husband and father and to move into farming at Mt. Vernon. 

I will share what I can in a short series to musings, based on the above and my interpretations of my diary, what Martha shared and thoughts of others.

I hope you will read along here as some of what is discovered and translated will appear along the way.

​I bid you good day. Squire Bin Forever. 1620-present.

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Some Relevant Quotes

1/12/2017

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​With most major events, the heroes come from many places, especially from among those most ordinary until they become heroes.  Dr. Dennis Cogswell
Some Famous Jeffersonian Quotes
 
     One man with courage is a majority.
 
I’m a great believer in luck and the
hardier I work, the more I have of it.
 
Victory and  Defeat are of the same price.
 
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 The Squire Muses On T.J.
With most major events, the heroes come from many places, especially from among those most ordinary until they become heroes. This was the case with the famous
ride of Jack Jouette. He was working hard at being inebriated when the future of his country fell to him. It is most likely that Thomas Jefferson and the other Colonial
leaders would have become history at the hands of the British Dragoon’s if J.J hadn’t taken the ride of his life to warn them. Those that put pleasure before duty to their country (by staying at Swain’s Tavern before fleeing the British Dragoons)  spent the
​rest of the war in a brig of a British warship. 
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    I am Squire Bin Forever, 386 years old. "New to You But Not to the World. Enjoy my diary of the family lives of important leaders of the founding of this counry

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