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27 de ago. de 2024 · In 1749, at age 18, she married Daniel Parke Custis, who was 20 years her senior and an heir to a neighboring 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 jun. de 2023 · George Washington was Martha’s second husband. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, a prominent Virginia landowner and enslaver, in 1750.They had four children, two of whom ...
When Daniel Parke Custis Jr was born on 19 November 1751, in New Kent, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Col Daniel Parke Custis, was 40 and his mother, Martha Dandridge, was 20. He died on 19 February 1754, in Williamsburg, York, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 2, and was buried in Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.
Daniel Parke Custis. Image: New York Public Library When George Washington began his courtship of the recently widowed Martha Dandridge Custis in March 1758, she served as administratrix of an estate that included 17,500 acres of land as well as more than £1,500 of liquid assets. 1 With such a dowry at only 27 years old, Martha had her pick of potential husbands.
Daniel Parke Custis’s untimely death on July 8, 1757 forced Martha into action. She ordered a black walnut coffin for her husband’s burial. Because Virginians did not practice embalming, burial occurred within a day or two after death. To commemorate Daniel’s final resting place, Martha later purchased an expensive marble tombstone from ...
All four children bore the name Parke, because the great-grandfather of Daniel Parke Custis had stipulated that that only child whose given names included Parke could inherit any portion of the Custis family estates. Jacky’s father Daniel died in 1757, making Martha Custis a widow.
Daniel Parke Custis died later in 1757 from what is believed to have been a throat infection (image courtesy of Lee Chapel & Museum, Washington & Lee University). Creator. John Wollaston. Date. 1757. Language. eng. Additional Item Metadata. Citation. Wollaston, John. Daniel Parke Custis. 1757, oil on canvas.
