Episode 24 — The Charge Of So Crazy A Body

Jane Ludwell Parke to Daniel Parke, July 12, 1705 In which Jane Ludwell Parke has HAD ENOUGH. This is the first part of what will be a multi-part series on Martha Washington's in-laws and the havoc they wreaked on Colonial Virginia. If you have a catchier name for this series, please submit it! Further Reading: The Text of this letter comes from: "Some New Aspects of the Life of Daniel Parke," by Edward W. Greenfield in The Virginia Magazine of Hiistory and Biography, Oct. 1946, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 306-315 Not to cite myself but uh... (kinda citing myself) https://millercenter.org/president/washington/washington-papers/dunbar-lawsuit James Falkner's entry on Daniel Parke in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.