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Before Martha became the first lady, she was married to Daniel Parke Custis from 1750 to 1757. Daniel was very wealthy, owned multiple plantations and hundreds of enslaved people, and his family was well known in Virginia. Daniel was also 20 years older than Martha. Together they had four children before he suddenly died in 1757.
Sep 22, 2016 · September 22, 2016. A late-18th century painting of George and Martha Washington with their adoptive children, George Washington Parke Custis and Nelly Custis, as well as one of their slaves ...
Martha and Daniel Custis had four children together. Only two lived to age five and Martha outlived all of her children. Daniel Custis (1751-1754) Frances Custis (1753-1757) John “Jacky” Parke Custis (1754-1781) Martha “Patsy” Parke Custis (1756-1773) After seven years of marriage, Daniel Custis died suddenly in July of 1757.
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 ...
Martha Dandridge was born in New Kent County on June 13, 1731. At age 18 she had married a wealthy heir of the region, Daniel Parke Custis. Soon she was busy as a mother caring for the couple's four children, two of whom died in infancy. At her husband's death eight years into their marriage, Martha Custis was suddenly an eligible young heiress ...
MARTHA DANDRIDGE CUSTIS WASHINGTON. Born: Chestnut Grove Plantation, New Kent County, Virginia. 1731, June 2. Father: John Dandridge (1701-1756), emigrated from England to Virginiain 1715 with older brother William. A planter, in 1730, he served as clerk of New Kent County. Mother: Frances Jones (1710-1785), born in York County, Virginia ...
Martha Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773) was the stepdaughter of George Washington who died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 17, fifteen years before he was elected as the first president of the United States. She was the youngest child of Martha Custis, who later became known as Martha Washington, and Daniel Parke Custis, who died ...
