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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.
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 ...
Betty (c. 1738 – 1795) was an enslaved woman owned by Martha Washington. [1] 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]
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 ...
Mary Custis Lee (1808–1873), Mariah's half-sister. The family became part of the free people of color in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War. Maria (Mariah) Carter was born into slavery, the mixed-race daughter of planter George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), the only grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage. [2]
George Washington was more than a foot taller than his wife, Martha, according to historical records. Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Melania Trump are the tallest first ladies at 5 foot 11 ...
Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).
Caroline Branham (1764–1843) was born to an enslaved woman of Daniel Parke Custis, Martha Washington's first husband. When Martha married George Washington, she came to live at Mount Vernon where Caroline was born. Branham had nine children, eight of whom were the offspring of her husband Peter Hardiman, a groomsman.