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    Custis's mother, Frances, was the daughter of Daniel Parke, a political enemy of the Custises. As Daniel Custis was the sole male heir in the Custis family...
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    those raised by President Washington. The only acknowledged son of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred slaves and thousands...
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    estates of his father, John Parke Custis, and grandfather Daniel Parke Custis. When Martha Washington died (also in 1802), Custis received both a bequest...
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    She was the youngest child of Martha Custis, who later became known as Martha Washington, and Daniel Parke Custis, who died one year after she was born...
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    John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, who...
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    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (née Elizabeth Parke Custis; August 21, 1776 – December 31, 1831), sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest granddaughter...
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    met Daniel Parke Custis, the son of a wealthy planter in Virginia. They wished to marry, but the father of Dandridge's prospective groom, John Custis, was...
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    Martha Parke Custis Peter (December 31, 1777 – July 13, 1854) was a granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Washington and a step-granddaughter of George Washington...
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    owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington...
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    White House (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    Plantation to his son Daniel Parke Custis, the first husband of Martha Dandridge Custis. The two would marry in 1750. Daniel Parke Custis would unexpectedly...
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    General Assembly, sitting there for a year. Custis married Frances Parke, the eldest daughter of Daniel Parke, in 1706. In 1714, his father John died, passing...
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  • descendant of Martha Washington from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. Eleanor Parke Custis was born in 1897. She never married and lived most of...
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    USS George Washington Parke Custis was a barge acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War for use as a balloon-launching platform to spy...
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    Washington Parke Custis, an orator, playwright, writer, and the grandson of Martha Custis Washington through her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. With...
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  • by the Custis Estate and worked at Daniel Parke Custis' plantation, the White House, on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia. Custis married...
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    Washington Custis Lee (September 16, 1832 – February 18, 1913), also known as Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. His...
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    family as "Nelly". Eleanor married John Parke Custis, son of the late Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (and stepson of George Washington)...
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  • Custis is a surname which may refer to: Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), son of John Custis and first husband of Martha Washington Eleanor Parke Custis...
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    married Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1807–1873), great-granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband Daniel Parke Custis, and step-great-granddaughter...
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    four children with Daniel Parke Custis. The two oldest (who died before her marriage to George Washington) are: Daniel Parke Custis (November 19, 1751...
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  • John Custis III and grandson John IV, who was born in August 1678. John Custis IV was the father of Daniel Parke Custis, Martha Dandridge Custis's first...
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    Abingdon (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    acres (364 ha) of his estate. In 1778, John Parke Custis (nicknamed "Jacky"), the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Washington and the stepson of George...
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    at Arlington with her grandparents, George Washington Parke Custis and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis. She did not spend much time at home in her youth, instead...
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    at age 26, married Martha Dandridge Custis, the 27-year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis. The marriage took place at Martha's...
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    marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. These stepchildren were Daniel Custis (1751–1754), Frances Custis (1753–1757), John "Jacky" Parke Custis (1754–1781)...
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    - November 8, 1978) and Mary Custis Lee (December 23, 1900 - December 26, 1994). Lee's mother, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, was the only surviving child...
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    Caroline Branham (category Custis family of Virginia)
    son. When he came of age, John Parke Custis (1754–1781) received a large inheritance from his father, Daniel Parke Custis's (1711–1757) estate, and became...
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    Lawrence Lewis (1767–1839) (category Custis family of Virginia)
    "Nelly" Parke Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and Daniel Parke Custis. She and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, had...
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    100-acre (445 ha) estate that Custis's father, John Parke Custis, had purchased in 1778 and named "Mount Washington". "Jacky" Custis died at Yorktown in 1781...
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    the age of twenty-five. When Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died without a will, she received a life interest in one-third of...
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