法印战争退出后，辞去军职的华盛顿回到弗农山庄的家中不久，即于1759年1月6日，与玛莎结婚。他在前年3月才结识卡斯蒂斯遗孀玛莎，并向他求婚。 这幅漫画即在取笑当时的求婚情况，其表示华盛顿可能向玛莎问道：「亲爱的玛莎，您愿意成为一国之母吗？」
　

After Washington resigned from the French and Indian War and returned home to Mount Vernon, he married Martha Dandridge Custis on January 6, 1759. He had met Martha Custis, a widow, the previous March and had proposed at that time. This cartoon of Washington proposing makes fun of what Washington might have said, "Dear Martha, will you be the mother of your country...?"

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