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In January 1759, when Custis was four years old, his mother married George Washington, who thereupon became his legal guardian and the administrator of the Custis Estate. The Washingtons raised Jacky and his younger sister Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773) at Mount Vernon. When his sister died of a seizure in 1773, aged 17 years, Custis ...
They married on January 6, 1759, [9] making Patsy, age two, and her brother John "Jacky" Parke Custis, age four, stepchildren of George Washington. [2] As the Washingtons entered into public life together, Martha Washington came to be known by her formal name, while her daughter and namesake was known as "Patsy".
However, Jacky Custis contracted "camp fever" in 1781 at the Siege of Yorktown while serving as Washington's aide and died shortly after Cornwallis surrendered there. [17] [18] Soon afterwards, George Washington "adopted" the two youngest Custis children, Nelly and George, who moved from Abingdon to live with the Washingtons at Mount Vernon. [17]
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.
Washington had no biological children. His wife Martha Dandridge had four children from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757). These stepchildren were Daniel Custis (1751–1754), Frances Custis (1753–1757), John "Jacky" Parke Custis (1754–1781) and Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773). [30]
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 ...
George Washington had no children, but his wife, the widowed Martha Dandridge Custis Washington had children from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. [2] [6] Her son, John Parke "Jacky" Custis (1754–1781) married Eleanor Calvert on February 3, 1774.
Jacky married Eleanor Calvert in 1774. They established themselves at Abington plantation, and they had three daughters and a son. When he came of age, John Parke Custis (1754–1781) received a large inheritance from his father, Daniel Parke Custis's (1711–1757) estate, and became Hardiman's enslaver. Jacky died in 1781.