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Daniel Parke Custis (October 15, 1711 [1] – July 8, 1757) was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of Martha Dandridge.After his death, his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington, who later became the first president of the United States.
The White House Plantation was part of a large land holding that John Custis, father of Daniel Parke Custis, purchased from the family of John Lightfoot III. [1] After John Custis died, he left the White House Plantation to his son Daniel Parke Custis, the first husband of Martha Dandridge Custis. The two would marry on May 15, 1750.
When Custis came of age in 1802, he inherited large amounts of money, land, and property from the estates of his father, John Parke Custis, and grandfather Daniel Parke Custis. When Martha Washington died (also in 1802), Custis received both a bequest from her (as he had upon George Washington's death in 1799) as well as his father's former ...
In 1778, John Parke Custis (nicknamed "Jacky"), the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Washington and the stepson of George Washington, purchased Abingdon and its 900-acre (364 ha) estate from Robert Alexander. [9] [15] [16] [17] Custis had been eager to obtain real estate in the Abingdon area on which to raise his family. [17] [18]
Betty (c. 1738 – 1795) was an enslaved woman owned by Martha Washington. [1] She was owned by the Custis Estate and worked at Daniel Parke Custis' plantation, the White House, on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia. [2]
[1] [2] [4] It was at Chestnut Grove that Martha married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on 15 May 1750. [1] [2] [4] In 1768, Martha Washington's younger brother Bartholomew Dandridge sold Chestnut Grove and its accompanying 500 acres (2.0 km 2). [4] Colonel Richard Pye Cooke then purchased the mansion in 1840. [5]
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John Parke Custis Nickname: Jacky: November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781 Eleanor Calvert: Stepson; father was Daniel Parke Custis. Father of: Unnamed Daughter Parke Custis (1775-1775) Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (1776–1831) Martha Parke Custis Peter (1777–1854) Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1852) Unnamed Twin Daughter Custis (1780-1780)