title: Martha Washington: First Lady of the United States (Signature Lives: Revolutionary War Era)
author:  Brenda Haugen 
description: Brenda Haugen started in the newspaper business and had a career as an award-winning journalist before finding her niche as an author. Since then, she has written more than 50 books and edited hundreds more, most of them for children. A graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, Brenda lives in North Dakota with her dog, Alice, who chose Brenda when she went to the Humane Society thinking she was there to adopt another dog.
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  **WAR BRIDES  
  MARTHA WASHINGTON: FIRST LADY OF LIBERTY**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  
  Text copyright © 2012 Helen Bryan
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
  
  
  Published by Amazon Publishing  
  PO Box 400818  
  Las Vegas, NV 89140
  
  
  ISBN-13: 9781611099287  
  ISBN-10: 1611099285  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920046
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For My Family_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](part0006.html#5N3C0-4bbaddfef52f4ac4b4f74c99915c0ee7)
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](part0007.html#6LJU0-4bbaddfef52f4ac4b4f74c99915c0ee7)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1](part0008_