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    George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John...
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    George Washington. He is now known for his progeny, especially those raised by President Washington. The only acknowledged son of Daniel Parke Custis...
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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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    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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    She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington. Lee was a highly educated...
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    George Washington. Nelly was a daughter of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and...
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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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    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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    George 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...
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    second-eldest surviving daughter of John Parke Custis, son of Martha Washington and her first husband Daniel Parke Custis, and his wife Eleanor Calvert, daughter...
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    Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. — May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although...
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    Abingdon (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    Elizabeth (Eliza) Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis Peter, and her younger brother, George Washington Parke Custis (G.W.P. Custis), were then raised...
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    Robert E. Lee Jr. (category Washington family)
    Mary Custis Lee (December 23, 1900 - December 26, 1994). Lee's mother, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, was the only surviving child of George Washington Parke...
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    the family estates to Custis, which included two plantations and numerous slaves. His wife died two years later, and in 1717, Custis moved to Williamsburg...
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    7, 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, an orator, playwright, writer, and the grandson of Martha Custis Washington through her first marriage...
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    to John Parke Custis, she became the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and the step-daughter-in-law of George Washington. Her portrait...
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    met George Washington Parke Custis at Arlington House. He visited Mount Vernon, and he met Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. In 1802, Georges Washington de...
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    orders of George Washington Parke Custis, the step-grandson of George Washington and grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. Custis became a prominent...
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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 die...
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    were inherited by Martha Washington's grandson, George Washington Parke Custis. He passed them on to his daughter, Mary Anna Custis Lee, and her husband,...
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    stayed behind 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...
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    portrays George and Martha Washington, two of Martha's grandchildren, George Washington Parke Custis and Eleanor Parke Custis, and George's body servant...
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    American President George Washington’s teeth began to fall out before he reached the age of thirty, and he eventually lost them all. During his life,...
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    Ravensworth (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    William Henry Fitzhugh, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and George Washington Custis Lee. It was built in 1796. Ravensworth was...
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    Samuel Osgood House (category Presidency of George Washington)
    MountVernon.org Biographical sketches from www.ushistory.org George Washington Parke Custis later became the father-in-law to Robert E. Lee. "While his...
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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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    Caroline Branham (category People who were enslaved by George Washington)
    was George Washington Parke Custis. Branham served the Washington family and their many visitors, ensuring they resided comfortably. She was at George Washington's...
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    president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and politician Lawrence Washington, and politician Charles Washington. Born into the planter class...
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  • Eleanor Parke Custis may refer to: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1854), known as Nelly, step-granddaughter of George Washington Eleanor Parke Custis (artist)...
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    Maria Carter Syphax (category Custis family of Virginia)
    Carter, daughter of an enslaved woman and George Washington Parke Custis, a grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage. Syphax was thus...
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