Daniel Parke Custis
(1711-1757)
BIRTH
October 15, 1711
PLACE
York County, Virginia
DEATH
July 8, 1757
PLACE
New Kent County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
John Custis IV
(1678-1749)
MOTHER
Frances Parke Custis (elder)
(c. 1686-1715)
SISTER
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
(1776-1831)
SISTER
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
BROTHER
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
WIFE
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
CHILDREN
Daniel Parke Custis II
(1751-1754)
CHILDREN
Frances Parke Custis
(1753-1757)
CHILDREN
Jacky Custis
(1754-1781)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN
MEMBERSHIPS
ST. PETER’S PARISH VIRGINIA CHURCHWARDEN, ST. PETER’S PARISH VIRGINIA VESTRY MEMBER
AWARDS
Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757) was a Virginia tobacco planter and Martha Dandridge’s first husband. He inherited extensive land and nearly three hundred enslaved people, and married Martha in 1750 despite his father’s objections. They lived at White House on the Pamunkey River and had four children, two surviving his death in July 1757. His estate left Martha a wealthy widow and shaped the finances of her second marriage to George Washington.
EARLY LIFE
Daniel Parke Custis was born on Oct 15, 1711 in York County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Daniel Parke Custis with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Daniel Parke Custis died on Jul 8, 1757 in New Kent County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Daniel Parke Custis was a Virginia tobacco planter and Martha Dandridge’s first husband. Custis died on July 8, 1757, in New Kent County, Virginia, with some historians stating the cause of death as a heart attack, but others stating that he died from a severe throat infection. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), Martha Washington’s first husband. These are related family biographies, primary papers and slavery history. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
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