Patsy Custis
(1756-1773)
BIRTH
1756
New Kent County, Virginia
Martha Parke Custis
FATHER
Daniel Parke Custis
(1711-1757)
MOTHER
Martha Dandridge Washington
(1731-1802)
BROTHER
Bartholomew Dandridge
(1737-1785)
BROTHER
Daniel Parke Custis II
(1751-1754)
SISTER
Frances Parke Custis
(1753-1757)
BROTHER
Jacky Custis
(1754-1781)
Martha Parke Custis was the 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 U.S. She was called "Patsy" by her family. She was the youngest child of Martha Custis, who later became known as Martha Washington, and Daniel Parke Custis, who died one year after she was born. Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis died Jun 19, 1773 in Fairfax County, Virginia.
BORN
Martha Parke Custis
New Kent County, Virginia
NICKNAMES
Patsy
Married Name
Custis White House Site
11850 White House Rd, New Kent, VA
The White House plantation was associated with Martha Washington’s Custis family. During the 1781 Virginia campaign, the surrounding Pamunkey and York River landscape became a corridor for military movement. The site’s strongest Revolutionary connection is familial and geographic rather than a documented battle.
MARKER
The exact date and place of Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
MUSEUM
No distinct public profession or office for Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis died on Jun 19, 1773 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
The weather in Virginia was volatile in the summer of 1773, with snow on June 11 and "exceedingly hot" temperatures on June 17. Eleanor heard a noise coming from Patsy's room to find her in the midst of a seizure – which Washington described as "one of her usual Fits" – after which she was moved into her bed. Patsy Custis died at around five o'clock on June 19, 1773, at the age of 17. Given the extremely hot weather, Patsy needed to be buried the following day. 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.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
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