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Martha and Daniel had seven blissful years, during which four children were born. Daniel Parke Custis II (b. 1751) and Frances Parke Custis (b. 1753) died in infancy. Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis was born in 1754, and John "Jacky" Parke Custis the next year.
As a girl of 18–about five feet tall, dark-haired, gentle of manner–she married the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. Two babies died; two were hardly past infancy when her husband died in 1757 ...
Martha Parke-Custis was George Washington’s step- daughter. She suffered from seizures since childhood, and died in a seizure at age 17 years. Martha (Patsy) Custis was the fourth child of Daniel Parke Custis, who died a few months after her birth, of a heart disease, and Martha Dandrige. They had four children in 5 years,
John Parke Custis, at left, and his sister, Martha Parke Custis—the two surviving children of Daniel Parke Custis and his first wife, Martha Dandridge Custis—are the subjects of this oil painting by Matthew Pratt. Martha Parke Custis died at seventeen after having an epileptic seizure.
At the age of 18, Martha married Daniel Parke Custis (20 years her senior) on May 15, 1750 in New Kent County. Although the young couple made their home at the Custis estate in New Kent, they had many Williamsburg connections through the powerful Custis family and plenty of opportunities to travel to the capitol city for balls and social events.
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 ...
4. Martha married Daniel Parke Custis on May 15, 1750. In colonial Virginia, most women of Martha’s social class met their potential mates through friends and family, or at church, court day, or a ball held at a neighbor’s house. Tradition holds that Martha met her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, at their local Anglican church.
