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Hace 5 días · A couple of years after he married, John Parke Custis (Martha Washington’s son and George Washington’s stepson), purchased two plantations in northern Virginia to be closer to his mother at Mount Vernon. One was an 1,100-acre tract he named “Arlington.”
Hace 4 días · In 1778, Martha Washington's son, General George Washington's stepson, John Parke Custis, purchased the land, which is now Arlington. In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis, had begun construction of a new mansion on the property called Arlington House.
Hace 2 días · Martha Dandridge Custis, a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston On January 6, 1759, Washington, at age 26, married Martha Dandridge Custis , the 27-year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis .
Hace 6 días · After Martha's death on May 22, 1802, most of the remaining dower slaves passed to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, to whom she bequeathed the only slave she held in her own name. There are few records of how the newly freed slaves fared.
Hace 4 días · Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 ...
Hace 6 días · A collection of Republican politicians have drafted a joint statement calling for war with Britain and have delivered it to the Speakers desk the signees being: John Parke Custis of Virginia, Thomas Sumter of South Carolina, Thomas Blount of North Carolina, Senator Benedict Arnold of Connecticut, Senator Aaron Burr of New York, Senator James Monroe of Virginia, former Vice President Thomas ...
Hace 5 días · John Parke, who goes by Cowboy because of his spray-painted hat, uses a wagon to move his belongings every morning from Foster Park where he sleeps in a tent at night. An ordinance passed in February designated Foster Park as the only place people who are homeless can sleep at night.
