Letitia Tyler, née Christian
- Item sets
- People
Linked resources
- Name
- Letitia Tyler, née Christian
- Biography
- Granddaughter of Robert Christian of Cedar Grove, the Chief Magistrate. Married John Tyler, who became the tenth President of the United States. The line from Deemster John McCristen in 1408, through the Christians of Milntown, through Virginia, to the White House — a family that had governed for five centuries, carried across the Atlantic by two brothers leaving an island where the consequences of the Great Stanley's land policy had made life untenable.
- Active Period
- 1790–1842
- Place
- Virginia
- Washington D.C.
- Family / Group
- The Christian Family
- Period
- Crown Administration
- Role / Office
- First Lady of the United States
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 17