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John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician. ... as well as his mother, for Custis was her only son. [1]
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 ...
Following the premature death of their father John Parke Custis in 1781, Nelly and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, were placed under the guardianship of the Washingtons and grew up at Mount Vernon, although they visited their mother, stepfather David Stuart and older sisters at Abington and later at Dr. Stuart's estates in Fairfax ...
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. Eleanor Parke Custis (later Lewis) and six ...
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]
The Custis family of Virginia was an eastern Virginia family influential in politics and civic life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
He was one of two children of John Custis IV (1678–1749), a powerful member of Virginia's Governor's Council, and Frances Parke Custis. The Custis family was one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent of Virginia. [2] Custis' mother, Frances, was the daughter of Daniel Parke, a political enemy of the Custises. [3]
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart (born Eleanor Calvert; 1758 – September 28, 1811) was a member of the wealthy American Calvert family of Maryland.She was the wife of politician John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Custis (later Washington), and the stepson of President George Washington.