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Web pages and other sources sometimes identify the Custis Trail as the "Nellie Custis Trail" [20] or the "Martha Custis Trail". [21] However, no documents show that the trail ever bore the name of any specific individual. In 1980, there were discussions of naming I-66 for the Custis family, to which George Washington was related by marriage. [22]
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States.Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States, defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that future first ladies observed.
John Parke Custis soon purchased the Abingdon plantation, where they moved in 1778. [3] John Parke Custis died in 1781 after contracting "camp fever" at the Siege of Yorktown. [3] His two youngest children became wards of his mother, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and her husband George Washington.
The 17-mile (27 km)-long Mount Vernon Trail travels along the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Potomac River between the Mount Vernon estate and Rosslyn in Arlington County, Virginia, where it connects to the Custis Trail. [87] [88] The shared-use path is a part of the Potomac Heritage Trail, the East Coast Greenway and U.S. Bicycle ...
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] Custis married Martha Dandridge (later Martha Washington ) in 1750 and, when he died in 1757, Betty became one of Martha's dower slaves whom she brought to George Washington 's plantation ...
Martha Parke "Patsy" Custis was born in 1756 at White House Plantation in Virginia. She was the fourth child of Martha Washington (née Dandridge) and Colonel Daniel Parke Custis . [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Her eldest brother Daniel Jr. had died at the age of three, before she was born, while her sister Frances died in 1757 at the age of four; both had died ...
John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician. Custis was a son of Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington) and Daniel Parke Custis, and later, the stepson of George Washington. [1] [2]
Martha Washington (1731–1802), Martha Custis (as the widow of Daniel Custis) before she married George Washington; Mary Anna Custis, daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and wife of General Robert E. Lee; Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994), poet and translator, related through her father, Henry Custis Vezey (1873–1939) Mary Lee Fitzhugh ...