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Custis's mother, Frances, was the daughter of Daniel Parke, a political enemy of the Custises. [3] As Daniel Custis was the sole male heir in the Custis family, he inherited the Southern plantations owned by his father. [4] However, Custis did not choose to take a leading role in colonial Virginia politics.
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.
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 .
Martha Parke Custis was born on December 31, 1777 [1] [2] in the Blue Room at Mount Vernon. [3] She was the 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 of Benedict Swingate Calvert and his wife Elizabeth Calvert.
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart (1758 – September 28, 1811), born Eleanor Calvert, was a prominent member of the wealthy Calvert family of Maryland.She was the wife of John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington).
The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. ... more than 200 people who were enslaved by the Custis family on ...
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]
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 ...