Thomas Law (1756–1834)
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Thomas Law, was a British administrator, reformer, and intellectual who significantly influenced British India and the early United States. In India, where he served as collector of revenue for the Ea
portrait by Anna Claypoole Peale
Elizabeth Parke Custis, portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
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Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest surviving granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Washington and a step-grandchild of George Washington. She married Thomas Law, the
Thomas Law (1756–1834)
…eventually brought his sons to the US. The eldest, George, died in 1796. John attended Harvard and Edmund attended Yale. In 1796 Law married 19 year old Elizabeth Parke Custis, the eldest granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington. Before their separation in 1804, they had one daughter, Eliza Custis Law, who married Nicholas…
Washington at Verplanck's Point, by John Trumbull, 1790