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Hace 4 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 .
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30 de abr. de 2024 · Some of the forebears of those enslaved to the Custises might have been enslaved as far back as John Custis II (1629-1696), who lived at his Arlington estate on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Every generation of the Custis family, John Custis II, III, and IV, Daniel Parke Custis (Martha’s first husband), Jackie Parke Custis, his four ...
3 de may. de 2024 · More than eighty enslaved laborers belonging to Custis moved to Mount Vernon. They were all, however, the property of John Parke Custis , Martha Washington’s son by her late husband. As such, George and Martha Washington could neither sell nor manumit any of these enslaved people, nor the future offspring of any of these enslaved ...
3 de may. de 2024 · By the time of Washington's death in 1799 there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon. 124 were owned outright by Washington, 40 were rented, and the remainder were dower slaves owned by the estate of Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on behalf of their grandchildren.
Hace 4 días · In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis, had begun construction of a new mansion on the property called Arlington House. Two of the enslaved people in Mr. Custis's house were named Charles Syphax and Maria Carter.
19 de abr. de 2024 · In 1749, at age 18, she married Daniel Parke Custis, who was 20 years her senior and an heir to a neighbouring plantation. During their life together she bore four children, two of whom died in infancy. Her husband’s death in July 1757 made her one of the wealthiest widows in the region.
5 de may. de 2024 · Parke's elder legitimate daughter married John Custis, and his younger married William Byrd II. His descendants include Daniel Parke Custis, first husband of Martha Washington, and Mary Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E Lee.
