Martha Parke Custis Peter
BIRTH
Dec 31, 1777
Fairfax County, Virginia
DEATH
July 13, 1854
Washington, D.C.
FAMILY
FATHER:
John "Jacky" Parke Custis
(1754-1781)
MOTHER:
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
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Peter, Martha Parke Custis
(1777-1854)
Martha Parke Custis Peter was a granddaughter of Martha Washington and step-granddaughter of George Washington. Raised within the Washington family circle, she married Thomas Peter and preserved family objects and memories at Tudor Place in Georgetown.
BIRTHPLACE:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
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SISTER
Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson
SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
BROTHER
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
SISTER
Rosalie Eugenia Stuart
SISTER
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
(1776-1831)
BROTHER
Daniel Parke Custis
(1711-1757)
SISTER
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
HUSBAND
Thomas Peter
(1769-1834)
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
George Peter
(1779-1861)
America Pinckney Peter
(1803-1842)
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DIED:
Washington, D.C.
Jul 13, 1854
Martha Parke Custis Peter was born on Dec 31, 1777 in Fairfax 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Martha Parke Custis Peter 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 Parke Custis Peter died on Jul 13, 1854 in Washington, D.C. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.