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John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician, only son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington.He is now known for his progeny, especially those raised by President Washington.
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart (1753 – September 28, 1811), born Eleanor Calvert, was a prominent member of the wealthy Calvert family of Maryland.She was the wife of John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington).
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 ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Early Years Custis may have been born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, about 1629. He was the son of Johanna Wittingham Custis and Henry Custis, a native of Gloucestershire, England, who operated a Rotterdam victualling house, or tavern, that served as the hub of the city’s English expatriate community. Custis’s father was a member of an extended family engaged in international commerce ...
John Parke Custis was Born in 1754, 3rd child of Martha Dandridge and Daniel Parke Custis. Their first two children died as infants. In 1756, John's sister Martha Parke Custis was born. His father Daniel died in 1757. About a year later, John's mother married George Washington, who adopted him and his sister Martha.
John Parke (usually called Jack or Jacky) Custis, the stepson of George Washington, is the subject of this miniature portrait by the renowned artist Charles Willson Peale. The watercolor-on-ivory image is only about one-and-a-half by one-and-a-half inches in size.
Sadly, John Parke Custis contracts camp fever at Yorktown and the women arrive to find him gravely ill. He dies on November 5th in the company of his wife, mother, and step-father. The Washingtons will raise his two youngest children, Nelly and Washy.
