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    John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician, only son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington...
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    John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900) was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Parke's Civil...
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    War of 1812. His father, John Parke Custis served in the American Revolution with then-General George Washington. John Parke Custis died after the Battle...
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    was one of two children of John Custis IV (1678–1749), a powerful member of Virginia's Governor's Council, and Frances Parke Custis. The Custis family...
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  • John Parke (1827–1900) was Union Army general in the American Civil War. John Parke may also refer to: John Parke (oboist) (1745–1829), English oboist...
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    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (née Elizabeth Parke Custis; August 21, 1776 – December 31, 1831), sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest granddaughter...
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    Martha Parke Custis was born on December 31, 1777 in the Blue Room at Mount Vernon. She was the second-eldest surviving daughter of John Parke Custis...
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    Maryland, the daughter of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha...
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  • journalist and editor Evan Parke, Jamaican actor Henry Parke (1790–1835), English architect Hervey Parke, Parke-Davis partner James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale...
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    Martha Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773) was the stepdaughter of George Washington who died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 17, fifteen years...
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    member of the wealthy Calvert family of Maryland. Upon her marriage to John Parke Custis, she became the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington...
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  • John Parke (1745 – 2 August 1829) was an English oboist, performing at prominent concerts of the day. He was born in 1745; William Thomas Parke, also...
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  • John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling U.S. Founding Father and president John Adams's political life and his role in the founding...
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    met Daniel Parke Custis, the son of a wealthy planter in Virginia. They wished to marry, but the father of Dandridge's prospective groom, John Custis, was...
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    Daniel Parke Custis, purchased from the family of John Lightfoot III. After John Custis died, he left the White House Plantation to his son Daniel Parke Custis...
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  • Baldwin broke off the engagement, and began a relationship with John "Johnnie" Parke Boyle (30 July 1893 – 24 February 1969), son of Major Charles Boyle...
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    private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington...
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  • John Parke (6 August 1937 – 27 August 2011) was a footballer, who played for Linfield, Hibernian, Sunderland, Vancouver Royal Canadians, KV Mechelen and...
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    19, 1754) Frances Parke Custis (April 12, 1753 – April 1, 1757) The last two children were Martha’s grandchildren by her son John, who came to live with...
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    hunting horn. In his memoirs, Washington's step-grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, described Lee during a hunt: Will, the huntsman, better known in...
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  • General Parke may refer to: John Parke (1827–1900), Union Army major general Thomas Parke (Royal Marines officer) (1780–1858), Royal Marines general William...
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    900 acres (364 ha) of his estate. In 1778, John Parke Custis (nicknamed "Jacky"), the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Washington and the stepson...
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    American bank robber John Younger (1851–1874), American outlaw John Custis (1678–1749), North American Colonial British politician John Parke Custis (1754–1781)...
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    Benjamin Church, he was followed by Dr. John Morgan 1775–1777, Dr. William Shippen 1777–1781 and Dr. John Cochran 1781. Keeping the continentals clothed...
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    control of Fort Duquesne until November 1758, when an expedition under General John Forbes finally succeeded in taking the fort. Word of the British military...
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    Martha's two children John Parke Custis (Jacky) and Martha Parke Custis (Patsy), and later Jacky's two youngest children Eleanor Parke Custis (Nelly) and...
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    account with arguments including: Robert Morris was a business partner of John Ross, Betsy's cousin by marriage. Morris was on the Marine Committee at the...
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    led by Banastre Tarleton, went out but collided with Lauzun's Legion, and John Mercer's Virginia militia, led by the Marquis de Choisy. The British cavalry...
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    the Virginia House of Burgesses. His paternal grandparents were Lt. Col. John Washington (c. 1631–1677) and his first wife, Anne Pope. His maternal grandparents...
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    John Washington (1633 – 1677) was an English-born merchant, planter, politician and military officer. Born in Tring, Hertfordshire, he subsequently emigrated...
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