Martha Parke Custis Peter
(1777-1854)
BIRTH
December 31, 1777
PLACE
Fairfax County, Virginia
NAME
Martha Parke Custis
DEATH
July 1854
PLACE
Washington, D.C.
FAMILY
FATHER
John Parke Custis
(1754-1781)
MOTHER
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
BROTHER
Daniel Parke Custis
(1711-1757)
SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
SISTER
Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
(1776-1831)
SISTER
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
(1779-1852)
BROTHER
George Washington Parke Custis
(1781-1857)
SISTER
Rosalie Eugenia Stuart
(1801–1886)
HUSBAND
Thomas Peter
(1769-1834)
CHILDREN
America Pinckney Peter Williams
(1803-1842)
CHILDREN
Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon
(1815-1911)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Patty
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Martha Parke Custis Peter (1777–1854), called Patty, was Martha Washington’s granddaughter. Raised by her mother Eleanor Calvert and stepfather David Stuart, she married Thomas Peter in 1795. They bought Tudor Place in Georgetown in 1805 and preserved furnishings and mementos from Mount Vernon. Their household and farms depended on enslaved labor. Mother of ten children, she lived there for twenty years after Thomas’s death. Descendants preserved the house as a museum.
EARLY LIFE
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.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association preserves the mansion, historic outbuildings, landscape, and collections. Architectural research and archaeology guide restoration and interpretation of the Washington household and enslaved community; the estate also includes reconstructed buildings.
MUSEUM
Gardens, Restaurant, Gift Shop, Surviving Structures, Reconstructions, Programs, Tours, Exhibits, Living History, Livestock, Artisans
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.
CAREER
DEATH
Martha Parke Custis Peter died on Jul 1854. Martha Parke Custis Peter, called Patty, was Martha Washington’s granddaughter. Their household and farms depended on enslaved labor. Mother of ten children, she lived there for twenty years after Thomas’s death. Descendants preserved the house as a museum. 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.
Oak Hill Cemetery
Navasota St., Burton, TX, USA
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