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Martha Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773) was a stepdaughter of George Washington who died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 17, fifteen years before he was elected as the first president of the United States.
25 wrz 2022 · Martha Parke Custis (about December 1755-June 19, 1773): Daughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis. Her body was placed in the Tomb (at Mount Vernon) on June 20, 1773. Patsy was born in about December 1755 in New Kent, Virginia.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington served as the nation's first first lady, helped manage and run her husbands' estates, raised her children and grandchildren, and was George Washington's "worthy partner" for almost 40 years. 1919 photo of Martha Washington's childhood home, Chestnut Grove.
Portrait miniature of Martha Parke Custis by Charles Willson Peale, 1772. Martha Parke Custis was Martha Washington and Daniel Parke Custis's youngest child. Known to the family as Patsy, Custis had a particularly difficult life. Patsy was only a toddler when her mother married George Washington.
Martha and Daniel had seven blissful years, during which four children were born. Daniel Parke Custis II (b. 1751) and Frances Parke Custis (b. 1753) died in infancy. Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis was born in 1754, and John "Jacky" Parke Custis the next year.
She was the second-eldest surviving daughter of John Parke Custis, son of Martha Washington and her first husband Daniel Parke Custis, and his wife Eleanor Calvert, daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert and his wife Elizabeth Calvert. Martha was named for her father's late sister, Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis (1756–1773).
The original must have depicted Martha “Patsy” Parke Custis, the daughter of Martha Dandridge and Daniel Parke Custis who died at age 16 in 1773. The only known images of Patsy were painted by John Wollaston in 1757 and by Charles Willson Peale in 1772.
