Martha Parke Custis
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Martha Parke Custis was a stepdaughter of George Washington who died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 17, fifteen years before he was elected as the first president of the United States. She wa
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1772
John Parke Custis
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John Parke Custis was an American planter and politician. Custis was a son of Martha Dandridge Custis and Daniel Parke Custis, and later, the stepson of George Washington.
Martha Parke Custis
…courting Martha, who had become one of the wealthiest women in Virginia, in 1758. They married on January 6, 1759, making Patsy, age two, and her brother John "Jacky" Parke Custis, age four, stepchildren of George Washington. As the Washingtons entered into public life together, Martha Washington came to be known by her formal…
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1774