Martha Washington
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1 day ago · Despite this, the two raised Martha's two children John Parke Custis (Jacky) and Martha Parke Custis (Patsy), and later Jacky's two youngest children Eleanor Parke Custis (Nelly) and George Washington Parke Custis (Washy), along with numerous nieces and nephews.
May 1, 2024 · Martha Washington's son, John Parke Custis, buys the land that will become Arlington Plantation. Custis later dies in the Revolutionary War, leaving the property to his son, George Washington Parke Custis. 1802 G.W.P. Custis decides to build a home and memorial to George Washington on this property.
Apr 30, 2024 · Some of the forebears of those enslaved to the Custises might have been enslaved as far back as John Custis II (1629-1696), who lived at his Arlington estate on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Every generation of the Custis family, John Custis II, III, and IV, Daniel Parke Custis (Martha’s first husband), Jackie Parke Custis, his four children ...
4 days ago · Several of them date back to when the property belonged to George Washington’s stepson John Parke Custis, the son of Martha Washington and her first husband. In 1778 Custis purchased 1,100 acres of rolling hills in northern Virginia, overlooking Washington, DC.
May 3, 2024 · More than eighty enslaved laborers belonging to Custis moved to Mount Vernon. They were all, however, the property of John Parke Custis , Martha Washington’s son by her late husband. As such, George and Martha Washington could neither sell nor manumit any of these enslaved people, nor the future offspring of any of these enslaved women, as ...
May 3, 2024 · Her wealth came from her marriage to Daniel Parke Custis, whose death in 1757 had left twenty-six-year-old Custis with two small children and an estate worth approximately £30,000. Washington and Custis married at a Custis house on the Pamunkey River on January 6, 1759.
May 20, 2024 · In 1778, Martha Washington's son, General George Washington's stepson, John Parke Custis, purchased the land, which is now Arlington. In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis, had begun construction of a new mansion on the property called Arlington House.
