John Parke Custis [SEP] mother
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis ("Jacky") (27 November 1754 – 5 November 1781) was a Virginia planter and the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington.
Childhood.
The son of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred slaves and thousands of acres of land, and Martha Dandridge Custis, he was most likely born at White House, his parents' plantation on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia.
Following his father's death in 1757
estate would pass to her mother. Under the terms of the will, Frances Parke was the primary beneficiary and was ordered to pay the substantial debts Parke had acquired during his lifetime. Francis Parke had married John Custis, and to meet the terms of the will, the couple sought legislative action in 1712 to break the entail, so that they could sell part of the estate to pay her father's debts. Francis Parke died of smallpox on 14 March 1715, leaving as her heirs, Francis Parke Custis and Daniel Parke