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Will of George Washington Parke Custis (March 26, 1855) CONTEXT. In his will, dated March 26, 1855, George Washington Parke Custis, stepgrandson of George Washington, bequeaths his property and manumits his enslaved laborers. Author: George Washington Parke Custis Transcription Source: Decker, Karl and Angus McSween.
George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was a stepson of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household.
Of the 317 people enslaved at Mount Vernon, 153 individuals were owned by the estate of Daniel Parke Custis, Martha Washington's first husband. Neither George nor Martha Washington had the legal authority to free these people.
4 de jun. de 2002 · As Daniel Parke Custis’s widow, and before she married George Washington in 1759, Martha Washington lent her brother Bartholomew Dandridge £600 sterling. At the settlement of Daniel Parke Custis’s estate in 1759–1761, Dandridge’s bond for this debt was assigned to Martha Washington’s daughter, Martha Parke (Patsy) Custis.
Learn More. Best known in his lifetime as the adopted son of George Washington, George Washington Parke Custis eventually became a key figure in preserving the memory and possessions of Washington.
Fourth Actuated by the principal already mentioned, I give and bequeath to George Washington Parke Custis, the Grandson of my wife, and my Ward, and to his heirs, the tract I hold on four mile run in the vicinity of Alexandria, containing one thousd two hundred acres, more or less, & my entire Square, number twenty one, in the City of Washington.32
