法印戰爭結束後，辭去軍職的華盛頓回到弗農山莊的家中不久，即於1759年1月6日，與瑪莎結婚。他在前年3月才結識卡斯蒂斯遺孀瑪莎，並向他求婚。 這幅漫畫即在取笑當時的求婚情況，其表示華盛頓可能向瑪莎問道：「親愛的瑪莎，您願意成為一國之母嗎？」
　

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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