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John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician. ... Custis became the sole heir of the Custis estate. [3] [1]
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.
Ancestor of Anthony Eden; Her great-great-granddaughter Eleanor Calvert married John Parke Custis, stepson of George Washington. She is also an ancestor of the Mitford sisters. Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton: 28 September 1663 Son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland: Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington 1 son
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 ...
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.
Custis' body was, per his own last will, buried near Cheapside, Virginia, in the Custis Tombs, the familial cemetery of the Arlington plantation. [2] As he was the sole legitimate heir, Custis willed that his plantations would pass into Daniel's possession; this included the White House, where he and Martha moved to after their marriage. [14]
Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke obtained possession of the Leeward Island properties and Gambles Plantation in 1723. [9] Upon taking possession, Dunbar Parke applied to John Custis to pay the debts in the Leeward Islands out of the Virginia and England estates. [1] [15] [19] Custis refused and the Dunbar Parkes filed a bill in the Virginia Court of ...
In 1774, John Parke Custis (oldest heir in a wealthy Maryland family which owned extensive estates) married Eleanor Calvert (daughter of one of the richest men in Maryland). [11] John and Eleanor Custis lived at Mount Vernon with John's mother, Martha Washington, and his foster father, George Washington. [12]