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Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart was a member of the wealthy American Calvert family of Maryland. She was the wife of politician John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Custis
Portrait attributed to John Ramage, c. 1780
George Washington Parke Custis was an American antiquarian, author, and playwright. He was a veteran of the War of 1812. His father John Parke Custis served in the American Revolution with then-Genera
Eleanor Calvert
…unnamed twin daughters (1780–1780), died three weeks after birth George Washington Parke Custis, "Wash" (1781–1857), married Mary Lee Fitzhugh In 1781, John died of "camp fever", believed to be typhus, following the Siege of Yorktown. Eleanor's…
Salt print, c. 1856
John Parke Custis, c. 1774, by Charles Willson Peale
The Washington Family (Edward Savage, 1789–1796). From left to right: George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Nelly Custis, Martha Washington, and an enslaved servant (probably William Lee or Christopher Sheels).