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20 de oct. de 2016 · Martha Parke Custis Peter and Thomas Peter, civic leaders in Georgetown and the capital city, helped shape our national life but few Americans today know their names. That anonymity belies the tangible legacy they left, thanks to the constancy of their descendants and an almost genetic devotion to preservation in the lasting family line.
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The first record in the “Daybook of Thomas Peter” is a list of 61 people who were transferred in 1796 to Martha Peter as inherited property from her father, John Parke Custis, on the occasion of her marriage in 1795. The rest of the Daybook details property and financial transactions, further dehumanizing the people on this list.
Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington’s granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795. George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington.
Library of Congress. The will of George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of George Washington, grandson of Martha Washington, and father-in-law of Robert E. Lee; the will specified that the executors of his estate must emancipate his slaves within five years of his death. Custis died on October 10, 1857.
3 de nov. de 2021 · Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis Peter in 1795. He died in 1834 after almost four decades by her side at age 65 and was buried on longstanding family property in rural Maryland. Martha took over and ran the family's large estate for the remaining 20 years of her life.
12 de dic. de 2012 · At some later point many were moved out to the Peter family holdings in Seneca, which included the Bull Run sandstone quarry. 9 There are four possible matches between the names in the 1848 Peter estate inventory, and a list of slaves brought to the marriage by Martha Parke Custis in 1795, held in the Archives of Tudor Place in Georgetown.
