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    Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States...
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    Randolph Custis Lee. His grandfather, George Washington Parke Custis was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (the wife of George Washington)....
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    George W. P. Custis was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (wife of George Washington). His father John Parke Custis was the stepson...
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    death, his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington, who later became the first president of the United States. Custis was born in York...
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    States. She was the youngest child of Martha Custis, who later became known as Martha Washington, and Daniel Parke Custis, who died one year after she was...
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    Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician. Custis was a son of Martha Washington and Daniel Parke Custis as...
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    children: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731–1802) John Dandridge III (1733–1749) William Dandridge III (1734–1776) Bartholomew Dandridge II (1737–1785)...
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    husband of his grandmother, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. Custis inherited the land from his father, John Parke Custis, who died at the end of the...
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    Parke Custis Law (née Elizabeth Parke Custis; August 21, 1776 – December 31, 1831), sometimes known as Eliza Law, was the eldest granddaughter of Martha Dandridge...
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    She was the wife of John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington). She and John had seven children...
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    control of dower slaves belonging to the Custis estate on his marriage to Martha Dandridge Custis. Washington's early attitudes about slavery reflected...
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  • Dandridge was a Colonel in his military district. The Dandridges had eight children: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802) John Dandridge (1733–1749)...
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    White House (plantation) (category Custis family residences)
    his son Daniel Parke Custis, the first husband of Martha Dandridge Custis. The two would marry on May 15, 1750. Daniel Parke Custis would unexpectedly die...
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    John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. Her father was the only surviving son of Daniel Parke Custis and his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, who married...
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    Martha Parke Custis Peter (December 31, 1777 – July 13, 1854) was a granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Washington and a step-granddaughter of George Washington...
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    was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington. Lee was a highly educated...
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  • was an enslaved woman owned by Martha Washington. She was owned by the Custis Estate and worked at Daniel Parke Custis' plantation, the White House, on...
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    Frances Custis (1753–1757), John "Jacky" Parke Custis (1754–1781) and Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773). Betty Washington Samuel Washington Charles...
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    Lawrence Lewis (1767–1839) (category Custis family of Virginia)
    Parke Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and Daniel Parke Custis. She and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, had been...
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    Chestnut Grove (plantation) (category Dandridge family of Virginia)
    that Martha married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on 15 May 1750. In 1768, Martha Washington's younger brother Bartholomew Dandridge sold Chestnut...
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    married Martha Dandridge Custis, the 27-year-old widow of wealthy plantation owner Daniel Parke Custis. The marriage took place at Martha's estate; she...
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    Mount Vernon, Virginia (category Washington metropolitan area)
    General of the Armies, and tobacco planter George Washington and his wife Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. Other notable individuals who were born in and/or...
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    Washington Old Hall – Ancestral residence in England George Washington's birthplace Ferry Farm – Boyhood home of Washington Martha Dandridge Custis –...
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    Henley was the son of Leonard and Elizabeth Dandridge Henley and the nephew of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. Henley was appointed a midshipman on 8...
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    bridge. The "Custis Memorial Parkway" name commemorates the Custis family, several of whose members (including Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, George Washington...
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    married Elizabeth Henley, a grand-niece of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, wife of George Washington. Their children included daughter Caroline (1857–1933)...
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    Maria Carter Syphax (category Custis family of Virginia)
    the illegitimate daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington through her first marriage. Syphax...
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    the family estates to Custis, which included two plantations and numerous slaves. His wife died two years later, and in 1717, Custis moved to Williamsburg...
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    Curtain, Australian judge Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (1776–1831), granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington Elizabeth Cuthrell, American film producer...
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    for being the woman with whom George Washington was apparently in love before his marriage to Martha Dandridge Custis. Sarah "Sally" Cary, came from one...
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