John "Jacky" Parke Custis
BIRTH
Nov 27, 1754
New Kent County, Virginia
DEATH
November 5, 1781
New Kent County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
Daniel Parke Custis
(1711-1757)
MOTHER:
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
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Custis, John Parke
(1754-1781)
John Parke Custis was Martha Washington’s son and George Washington’s stepson. He served in the Virginia legislature and joined Washington’s headquarters as a civilian aide during the Yorktown campaign, dying soon afterward from camp fever.
BIRTHPLACE:
MARKER
Custis White House Site
11850 White House Rd, New Kent, VA
HOMES:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
GRAVE:
MARKER
Eltham Marker
1860 Eltham Rd, West Point, VA
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BROTHER
John Dandridge Jr
(1700-1756)
BROTHER
Bartholomew Dandridge
(1737-1785)
SISTER
Frances Parke Custis
(1753-1757)
BROTHER
George Peter
(1779-1861)
SISTER
Frances Jones Dandridge
(1710-1785)
SISTER
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
(1739-1777)
SISTER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
SISTER
Elizabeth Parke Law
(1797-1822)
SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
BROTHER
Daniel Parke Custis II
(1751-1754)
SISTER
Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis
(1756-1773)
SISTER
Frances Parke Lewis Butler
(1799-1875)
WIFE
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
(1776-1831)
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM | ||
Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Yorktown - Surrender Field | Historical Tour Road, Yorktown, Virginia, 23690, USA | MUSEUM | ||
Bruton Parish Church | 201 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
St Peters Parish Church | 8400 St Peters Ln, New Kent, VA | MUSEUM | ||
Black Horse Tavern Marker | 3100 Troyer Rd, White Hall, MD 21161 | MARKER | ||
Mount Airy | 9640 Rosaryville Road, Upper Marlboro, MD | MARKER |
DIED:
New Kent County, Virginia
Nov 5, 1781
John "Jacky" Parke Custis was born on Nov 27, 1754 in New Kent 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 John "Jacky" Parke Custis with work or public activity as a planter, 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. John "Jacky" Parke Custis died on Nov 5, 1781 in New Kent County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.