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John Parke Custis, called "Jacky," stepson of George Washington, served as an aide-de-camp to General Washington during the siege of Yorktown. He died of camp fever in October 1781, just after Lord Cornwallis's surrender on October 19.
John Parke (usually called Jack or Jacky) Custis, the stepson of George Washington, is the subject of this miniature portrait by the renowned artist Charles Willson Peale. The watercolor-on-ivory image is only about one-and-a-half by one-and-a-half inches in size.
1 de mar. de 2002 · To John Parke Custis. Philadelphia June 19th 1775. I have been called upon by the unanimous voice of the Colonies to take the command of the Continental Army—It is an honour I neither sought after, or was by any means fond of accepting, from a consciousness of my own inexperience, and inability to discharge the duties of so important a Trust.
Martha Parke Custis Peter. By Wendy Kail. On January 6, 1759 the widow Martha Dandridge Custis married Colonel George Washington. She stood only five feet to his six feet, three and a half inches. 1 She brought two children from her first marriage, John Parke Custis [Jacky, born 1754], and Martha Parke Custis [Patcy, born 1756].
When John Parke Custis was born on 27 November 1754, in New Kent, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Col Daniel Parke Custis, was 43 and his mother, Martha Dandridge, was 23. He married Eleanor Calvert on 3 February 1774, in Prince George's, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
Frances Parke Custis (1709-1744) Family tradition identifies the subject and it descended in the Custis-Lee family. It bears stylistic similarities to the Jaquelin and Brodnax family portraits dated to the 1720s. Frances Parke Custis was the daughter of John and Frances Parke Custis. She married first, William Winch, and second, Captain Thomas ...
First Marriage and Children. In her late teens, Martha Dandridge caught the eye of Daniel Parke Custis (1711-1757), who, though 20 years her senior, was one of the most eligible bachelors in Virginia. Daniel’s father initially opposed the marriage, because the prospective bride’s family was not as wealthy as he would have liked.
