she had grown up in fredericksburg, the chatham plantation, and then up in old town, alexandria on orinoco street and family property in fairfax county called. ravensworth was also a part of her child hood and she brought with her to they were married in july of 1804 and i was able to obtain marriage bond. i had get two permissions for this the library of virginia as well as the current arlington county clerk. and that was funny. it was easy, but i had to go through the motions. molly brought with her i'll call her molly because their daughter, they're both named mary of the daughters mary the future, mary custis lee. so i want to make it clear who i'm referring. so molly brought with her a good relations with. her cousin, william mead, who became later the bishop of virginia. he was active in the reform of the episcopal church and he was also with his cousin and others active in the american colonization society and but mead was always grateful to arlington house because he had visited it as an undergraduate when he was at princeton, and he was still studying law. and it was his to arling