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The Peter Family Martha Parke Custis and Thomas Peter. Martha Parke Custis was born in the Blue Room at Mount Vernon on December 31, 1777. Her father, John Parke Custis (1754-1781), was Martha Washington’s son from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis, and her mother was Eleanor Calvert Custis (1758-1811), the granddaughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore and Proprietary ...
Daniel Parke Custis fell gravely ill and passed away in July of 1757. Shortly thereafter, Martha Dandridge Custis met George Washington. The Custis Children George and Martha had no children of their own, but their family life was dominated by the Custis children. Washington served as a father figure for his two step-children, John "Jacky ...
John Parke Custis. Date of Birth - Death November 27, 1754 - November 5, 1781. John Parke Custis, known as “Jacky,” was born in 1754 to Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis. He was the third of Martha’s four children. His two older siblings, a boy named Daniel and a girl named Frances, both died in early childhood, but his ...
Martha Washington lost her last living child during the Revolution. Jack died of “camp fever” at age 26. Two of his children, Nellie Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis, moved into Mount Vernon and were raised by their grandparents. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783 and General Washington returned to Mount Vernon.
Martha Custis’s first child was a son, named Daniel Parke Custis, born on November 19, 1751, followed in April 1753 by a daughter, Frances Parke Custis. Although the first names were traditional family names, the children’s great-grandfather had imposed a strict condition on inheritance: only children bearing the name “Parke” as part of their given name would receive a portion of the ...
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States , defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that future first ladies would observe.
As a girl of 18–about five feet tall, dark-haired, gentle of manner–she married the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. Two babies died; two were hardly past infancy when her husband died in 1757 ...
