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White House, an 18th-century plantation on the Pamunkey River near White House in New Kent County, Virginia, was the home of Martha Dandridge Custis (1731–1802) and Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757) after they were married in 1750. Troops of the Army of the Potomac under the command of George B. McClellan burned the house to the ground on June 28, 1862, as they retreated during the Seven Days Battles.〔(Horn, Jonathan. "White House on the Pamunkey." ''New York Times.'' June 29, 2012. ) Accessed 10-25-2013.〕 Following the war, General W.F. "Rooney" Lee rebuilt the house, but it burned to the ground in 1875 and was not rebuilt. ==Antebellum years== A wealthy widow, Martha Custis was courted by George Washington, whom she married in 1759.〔 Shortly thereafter, he resigned his Virginia military commission and they moved to his farm at Mount Vernon in Fairfax County overlooking the Potomac River.〔〔John K. Amory, M.D., "George Washington’s infertility: Why was the father of our country never a father?" ''Fertility and Sterility'', Vol. 81, No. 3, March 2004. ((online, PDF format) )〕 George and Martha Washington had no children of their own, but raised her two surviving children.〔〔 Her son, John Parke "Jacky" Custis (1754–1781) married Eleanor Calvert on February 3, 1774. The couple then moved to the White House plantation.〔 After the couple had lived at the White House plantation for more than two years, John Parke Custis purchased the Abingdon plantation, into which the couple settled during 1778.〔 John Parke Custis died in 1781 after contracting "camp fever" at the Siege of Yorktown.〔 Martha and George Washington then raised his two younger children, Eleanor Parke Custis (later Lewis) and George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857). George Washington became the first President of the United States and his wife, Martha, became the nation's initial First Lady, although she was known at the time as simply "Lady Washington." The title of First Lady was traditionally given the President's wife in years thereafter. In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis began construction on Arlington House, then in the District of Columbia, intending it to become a memorial to his step-grandfather (and adoptive father), George Washington, who had died in 1799. Arlington House later became the home of his daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, born in 1807, who in 1831 married Robert E. Lee.〔Perry, John. ''Mrs. Robert E. Lee : The Lady of Arlington''. Multnomah Publishers, 2003. ISBN 1-59052-137-4.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/1/4 *.html )〕 In 1846, most of the area of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River was retroceded to Virginia, including the land occupied by Arlington House and the surrounding plantation. Robert E. and Mary Anna Custis Lee had seven children, of whom three boys and three girls survived to adulthood.〔 Of these, the second son was William H.F. "Rooney" Lee (1837–1891), who was born at Arlington House. Rooney Lee was educated at Harvard University, and then followed his father's footsteps into service with the U.S. Army.〔 However, in 1859, he resigned his commission.〔 Rooney Lee moved to White House Plantation, which he had inherited from his grandfather, who died in 1857.〔 He married Charlotte Wickham, a descendant of attorney John Wickham.〔 They had two children, a boy and a girl, both of whom died in infancy.〔 His wife, Charlotte, died in 1863.〔 The manor house at White House Plantation, which was burned in 1862, had been the second of three which occupied the site of over the years, all destroyed by fires. White House was the site of the crossing of the Pamunkey River of the Richmond and York River Railroad, which was completed in 1861 between Richmond and West Point, where the Pamunkey and the Mattaponi Rivers converge to form the York River. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「White House (plantation)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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