Original sentence: Documents show that Martha Dandridge took no slaves with her when she moved from her childhood home in Chestnut Grove.No record of Ann Dandridge is found in Custis estate records, and neither the sister nor her children are found in George Washington's meticulous records of slaves at Mt.Patricia Brady asserts that Bryan and Wiencek accepted and adapted post-Civil War family traditions about events in the Custis/Washington family.Vernon in either 1786 or 1799
Edited sentence: Drawing upon his extensive studies of plantation families, Wiencek states that slaveholders were masters of concealment, adept at keeping their secrets.Patricia Brady, similarly ignoring the documentary evidence and perpetuating the denial of unpleasant facts about slavery in Virginia's leading families, takes the position that Bryan and Wiencek accepted and adapted post-Civil War family traditions about events in the Custis/Washington family.She says that documents show that Martha Dandridge took no slaves with her when she moved from her childhood home in Chestnut Grove