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The Washingtons raised Jacky and his younger sister Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773) at Mount Vernon. When his sister died of a seizure in 1773, aged 17 years, Custis became the sole heir of the Custis estate.
When Jacky Custis reached maturity, he married Eleanor Calvert, with whom he had four children. He died in 1781 and his wife remarried the Alexandria physician David Stuart in 1783. The Washingtons adopted Jacky's two youngest children, Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis .
Together, Martha and Daniel had four children. However, only two of these children survived to adulthood: John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Martha (Patsy) Parke Custis. According to eyewitness accounts, George Washington was a loving father to both Jack and Patsy.
Yet in the meantime, Martha Custis had given birth to two more children who would become the center of her own life: John Parke Custis (called “Jacky”), who was born in 1754, and Martha Parke Custis (called “Patsy”), born in 1756.
John Parke Custis (known as Jacky when younger, and Jack as he got older) was around four years old when his mother Martha married George Washington. Custis was one of the two surviving children of Martha Washington's first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis.
All four children bore the name Parke, because the great-grandfather of Daniel Parke Custis had stipulated that that only child whose given names included Parke could inherit any portion of the Custis family estates. Jacky’s father Daniel died in 1757, making Martha Custis a widow.
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Sep 22, 2016 · Though they may have been ignored by the history books, many descendants of Parke Custis’ illegitimate children are around today. For them, their heritage was no secret.
