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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.
Sep 27, 2020 · Jacky and Eleanor had four children -- Elizabeth Parke Custis, Martha Parke Custis, Eleanor Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis. All four led full lives that can tell us something significant about life in and around northern Virginia and Washington, and the early years of the republic.
With Custis's premature death at 26, his widow sent her two youngest children (Eleanor/Nellly and George/Washy) to Mount Vernon to be raised by the Washingtons. In 1783, she married David Stuart of Alexandria, Virginia , with whom she had at least seven additional children who survived infancy.
Custis had ordered goods from Cary from as early as 1750. 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.
Over the next seven years, the couple would have seven children, but only four would survive past infancy. As the last living child of Martha and Daniel Custis, Jacky was the sole heir to his impressive estate – over 17,000 acres of land and nearly 300 enslaved people.
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.
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John Custis IV (1678-1749) and his wife, Frances Parke (1685-1714), are notorious for their unhappy marriage. They had two surviving children, Daniel Parke Custis (1711-1757) and Frances Parke Custis (1709-1744).
