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John Parke Custis (
27 November 1754 –
5 November 1781) was a
Virginia planter and stepson of
George Washington.
He was most likely born at White House, his parents' plantation in
New Kent County,
Virginia. He was the son of
Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter, and
Martha Dandridge Custis. After the death of his father in 1757, he inherited almost 18,000 acres (73 km²) of land. In 1759 his mother married
George Washington and moved with her children to
Mount Vernon. Custis briefly attended King's College (later
Columbia University) in 1773.
On
3 February 1774 Custis married Eleanor Calvert, a granddaughter of
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. Their seven children included
Eleanor Parke Custis (later Lewis) and
George Washington Parke Custis.
Custis sat in the
Virginia House of Delegates from 1778 until 1781. He served as a civilian aide-de-camp to Washington during the
siege of Yorktown. He contracted camp fever and died in New Kent County not long after Cornwallis's surrender. He was buried in
York County, near
Williamsburg.
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