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Delegates</a> for <a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />May 4, 1778 – March 22, 1781<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/George_Mason" title="George Mason">George Mason</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Philip Alexander</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">position eliminated</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">November 27, 1754<br /><a href="/wiki/White_House_(plantation)" title="White House (plantation)">White House Plantation</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/New_Kent_County,_Virginia" title="New Kent County, Virginia">New Kent County</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a>, British America</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 5, 1781<span style="display:none">(1781-11-05)</span> (aged 26)<br /><a href="/wiki/Eltham,_Virginia" title="Eltham, Virginia">Eltham Plantation</a>,<br />New Kent County,<br /><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data">"Camp fever" (either <a href="/wiki/Epidemic_typhus" title="Epidemic typhus">epidemic typhus</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dysentery" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Creek" title="Queen's Creek">Queen's Creek</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Calvert" title="Eleanor Calvert">Eleanor Calvert</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Daniel Parke Custis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Dandridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Martha Dandridge">Martha Dandridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Parke_Custis" title="Martha Parke Custis">Martha Parke Custis</a> (sister)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Planter, politician</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Parke Custis</b> (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American <a href="/wiki/Planter_class" title="Planter class">planter</a> and politician. Custis was a son of <a href="/wiki/Martha_Washington" title="Martha Washington">Martha Washington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Daniel Parke Custis</a> as well as a stepson of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MV_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The only son to survive childhood of <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Daniel Parke Custis</a>, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred slaves and thousands of acres of land in five Virginia counties, and the former <a href="/wiki/Martha_Washington" title="Martha Washington">Martha Dandridge</a>, he was most likely born at <a href="/wiki/White_House_(plantation)" title="White House (plantation)">White House</a>, his parents' plantation on the <a href="/wiki/Pamunkey_River" title="Pamunkey River">Pamunkey River</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Kent_County,_Virginia" title="New Kent County, Virginia">New Kent County, Virginia</a>. To his family, he was known as "Jacky" as a boy, then "Jack", especially after attaining his inheritance.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following his father's death in 1757, under Virginia's laws concerning intestacy (dying without a will), almost 18,000 acres (73 km<sup>2</sup>) of land and personal property including about 285 enslaved persons (worth £30,000) were held in trust for Custis until he came of age.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the estate prompted a transatlantic legal battle with relatives in the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands" title="Leeward Islands">Leeward Islands</a>, which prompted Martha Custis to seek assistance from <a href="/wiki/John_Robinson_(Virginia_politician,_born_1705)" title="John Robinson (Virginia politician, born 1705)">John Robinson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1759, when Custis was four years old, his mother married <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, who thereupon became his legal guardian and the administrator of the <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis#Estate" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Custis Estate</a>. The Washingtons raised Jacky and his younger sister <a href="/wiki/Martha_Parke_Custis" title="Martha Parke Custis">Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis</a> (1756–1773) at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon_(plantation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Vernon (plantation)">Mount Vernon</a>. When his sister died of a seizure in 1773, aged 17 years, Custis became the sole heir of the Custis estate.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His stepfather was not overly fond of Custis, and considered the child troubled, lazy and "free-willed" for taking no interest in his studies.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Martha Washington had supervised the boy's earliest education, but by 1761 the family hired Scotsman Walter Magowan as a private tutor. When Magowan returned to England in 1767, Washington sent Custis to a boarding school run by Rev. <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Boucher" title="Jonathan Boucher">Jonathan Boucher</a>, initially in <a href="/wiki/Caroline_County,_Virginia" title="Caroline County, Virginia">Caroline County, Virginia</a>. Although Boucher too considered the boy indolent, the arrangement continued after Boucher moved the school to <a href="/wiki/Annapolis,_Maryland" title="Annapolis, Maryland">Annapolis, Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MV_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1773 Custis began to attend King's College (later <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>) in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, but left soon after his sister died.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Not long after reaching the legal age of eighteen, Jacky told the Washingtons of his engagement to 15 year old <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Calvert" title="Eleanor Calvert">Eleanor Calvert</a>, a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Swingate_Calvert" title="Benedict Swingate Calvert">Benedict Swingate Calvert</a> and granddaughter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_5th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore">Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The announcement greatly surprised George and Martha because both Jack and Eleanor were so young.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MW_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MW-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, on February 3, 1774, Custis married Eleanor at her family's Mount Airy estate. Its restored mansion is the center of <a href="/wiki/Rosaryville_State_Park" title="Rosaryville State Park">Rosaryville State Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland" title="Prince George's County, Maryland">Prince George's County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As discussed below, the couple would have six daughters and a son, of whom four reached adulthood. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Planter">Planter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Planter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After their marriage, the couple settled at his father's <a href="/wiki/White_House_(plantation)" title="White House (plantation)">White House plantation</a> in rural New Kent County.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, after two years, Custis sold the Custis family's town lots in Jamestown and Williamsburg, as well as several plantations in King and Queen, Hanover and New Kent counties in order to purchase two plantations in northern Virginia (in then-vast <a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County</a>) closer to his step father's Mount Vernon plantation. One tract of 1,100 acres (4.5 km<sup>2</sup>) acres which Custis named "Arlington" was bought outright for £12,000 (and later became <a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a>). The other plantation, 904 acres (3.66 km<sup>2</sup>) acres called <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_(plantation)" title="Abingdon (plantation)">Abingdon</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Reagan_National_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Reagan National Airport">Reagan National Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington County, Virginia</a>), Custis purchased on unfavorable terms: a mortgage at £12 per acre, with substantial annual payments over £2,000 each year, and the principal due in 1802.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Washington believed Abingdon's owner, Robert Alexander, took advantage of Custis's inexperience and eagerness. When he learned of the purchase terms, George Washington informed Custis that "No Virginia Estate (except a few under the best management) can stand simple Interest how then can they bear compound Interest".<sup id="cite_ref-Grizzard69_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grizzard69-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, the couple settled there during the winter of 1778–1779.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Templeman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Templeman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Custis' behavior in this and other matters prompted George Washington to write in 1778: "I am afraid Jack Custis, in spite of all of the admonition and advice I gave him about selling faster than he bought, is making a ruinous hand of his Estate."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1781, the financial strains of the Abingdon purchase had almost bankrupted Custis. He tried to renegotiate the terms before his death, and afterward David Stuart as guardian of Custis' minor children, reconveyed it to its former owner after paying £2,400 in rent for the period the estate had been in Custis hands.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most historians agree Custis did not join the Continental Army due to the determined opposition of his stepfather, as well as his mother, for Custis was her only son.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, one account claimed Custis served on Washington's staff during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a> in 1775–1776 and as an emissary to the British forces there.<sup id="cite_ref-Lossing_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lossing-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politician">Politician</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Politician"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1778, Custis ran for a seat in the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="Virginia House of Delegates">Virginia House of Delegates</a> from both New Kent County and Fairfax County.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Custis became one of the two Fairfax County delegates, alongside his stepfather's neighbor and mentor <a href="/wiki/George_Mason" title="George Mason">George Mason</a>, and both were re-elected twice before Custis' death, after which only Benjamin Dulaney represented the county for the 1781/2 term.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Washington at least once chided Custis concerning his habitual late arrival.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eleanor bore seven children during their marriage, three of whom died in infancy: </p> <ul><li>unnamed daughter (1775–1775), died shortly after birth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Parke_Custis_Law" title="Elizabeth Parke Custis Law">Elizabeth "Eliza" Parke Custis</a> (1776–1831), married <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Law_(1756%E2%80%931834)" title="Thomas Law (1756–1834)">Thomas Law</a>, an English immigrant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Parke_Custis_Peter" title="Martha Parke Custis Peter">Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis</a> (1777–1854), married Thomas Peter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Parke_Custis_Lewis" title="Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis">Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis</a> (1779–1852), married <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Lewis,_1767-1839" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawrence Lewis, 1767-1839">Lawrence Lewis</a></li> <li>unnamed twin daughters (1780–1780), died three weeks after birth</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Parke_Custis" title="George Washington Parke Custis">George Washington "Washy" Parke Custis</a> (1781–1857), married <a href="/wiki/Mary_Lee_Fitzhugh_Custis" title="Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis">Mary Lee Fitzhugh</a>.</li></ul> <p>Speculation has also linked Custis as the possible father of <a href="/wiki/William_Costin" title="William Costin">William Costin</a> (1780-1842), born to Custis slave Ann (Nancy) Dandridge-Costin.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 1781 Custis persuaded Washington to let him serve as a civilian aide-de-camp to Washington during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">siege of Yorktown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> En route to Yorktown he also made inquiries about 17 slaves who had reportedly fled to British lines.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the crowded camps near the battlefield were rife with smallpox and malaria,<sup id="cite_ref-Good_p._30_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Good_p._30-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Custis contracted "camp fever", which could have been an illness now labelled <a href="/wiki/Epidemic_typhus" title="Epidemic typhus">epidemic typhus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Dysentery" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while at Yorktown.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was moved 30 miles upriver to <a href="/wiki/Eltham,_Virginia" title="Eltham, Virginia">Eltham plantation</a> the home of his uncle Colonel <a href="/wiki/Burwell_Bassett" title="Burwell Bassett">Burwell Bassett</a> (Martha Washington's brother-in-law), where Martha Washington as well as his wife Eleanor (both of whom had journeyed to Williamsburg a few weeks before) attempted to help nurse him.<sup id="cite_ref-Good_p._30_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Good_p._30-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after the surrender of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis" title="Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a>, Custis died on November 5, 1781, at Eltham.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried at his family's plot at their <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Creek" title="Queen's Creek">Queen's Creek</a> plantation, in <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Williamsburg,_Virginia" title="Williamsburg, Virginia">Williamsburg, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, if any grave marker had been erected, none remained by 1895 when the remaining Custis gravestones were moved to Bruton Parish Church.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With Custis's premature death at 26, his widow sent her two youngest children (Eleanor/Nelly and George/Washy) to Mount Vernon to be raised by the Washingtons.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1783, she married <a href="/wiki/David_Stuart_(Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Stuart (Virginia)">David Stuart</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria, Virginia</a>, with whom she had at least seven additional children who survived infancy.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Custis had become well-established at Abingdon, his financial affairs were in disarray because of his poor business judgement as well as wartime conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Custis died in 1781, administrators of the <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis#Estate" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Custis Estate</a> negotiated for more than a decade to end the Abington transaction.<sup id="cite_ref-Bearss_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because Custis died <a href="/wiki/Intestate" class="mw-redirect" title="Intestate">intestate</a>, his estate was not fully liquidated until the 1811 death of his widow. His four children inherited more than 600 slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-Yates_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yates-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Part of the Abingdon estate is now on the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport" title="Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport">Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Templeman_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Templeman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he purchased Abingdon, Custis also bought a nearby property that after his death became <a href="/wiki/Arlington_House,_The_Robert_E._Lee_Memorial" title="Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial">Arlington Plantation</a> and later, <a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Templeman_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Templeman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Parke_Custis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Bearss-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bearss_1-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sara M. 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(2023). <i>First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America</i>. Hanover Square. pp. 18, 29. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-335-44951-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-335-44951-1"><bdi>978-1-335-44951-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=First+Family%3A+George+Washington%27s+Heirs+and+the+Making+of+America&rft.pages=18%2C+29&rft.pub=Hanover+Square&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=978-1-335-44951-1&rft.aulast=Good&rft.aufirst=Cassandra+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Parke+Custis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeincek2003" class="citation book cs1">Weincek, Henry (2003). <i>An Imperfect God: George Washington, his Slaves and the Creation of America</i>. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 284–289. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780374175269" title="Special:BookSources/9780374175269"><bdi>9780374175269</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Imperfect+God%3A+George+Washington%2C+his+Slaves+and+the+Creation+of+America&rft.pages=284-289&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus+and+Giroux&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9780374175269&rft.aulast=Weincek&rft.aufirst=Henry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Parke+Custis" class="Z3988"></span> citing family-held genealogy as well as <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Van_Lew" title="Elizabeth Van Lew">Elizabeth Van Lew</a> "dossier" concerning Harriett Costin, William Costin's daughter</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Good p. 20</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Good_p._30-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Good_p._30_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Good_p._30_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Good p. 30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChernow2010" class="citation book cs1">Chernow, Ron (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r3-rsrDiE5cC&q=camp+fever"><i>Washington: A Life</i></a> (e-book ed.). Penguin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781101444184" title="Special:BookSources/9781101444184"><bdi>9781101444184</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 26,</span> 2018</span>. <q>Amid the unsanitary conditions at Yorktown, Jacky contracted 'camp fever' ... ... 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Winder (1905). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9hA5AAAAMAAJ"><i>The Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson: Daughter of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn, his wife</i></a>. Ferris & Leach. p. 30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780598999665" title="Special:BookSources/9780598999665"><bdi>9780598999665</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="List of delegates to the Continental Congress">Delegate</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress" title="Second Continental Congress">Second Continental Congress</a> (1775)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_delegates_to_the_Continental_Congress" title="List of delegates to the Continental Congress">Delegate</a> to the <a href="/wiki/First_Continental_Congress" title="First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a> (1774)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Military_career_of_George_Washington" title="Military career of George Washington">Military career</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Revolutionary War</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_career_of_George_Washington" title="Military career of George Washington">Military career</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_in_the_French_and_Indian_War" title="George Washington in the French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen" title="Battle of Jumonville Glen">Jumonville Glen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Necessity" title="Battle of Fort Necessity">Battle of Fort Necessity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Monongahela" title="Battle of the Monongahela">Battle of the Monongahela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forbes_Expedition" title="Forbes Expedition">Forbes Expedition</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_in_the_American_Revolution" title="George Washington in the American Revolution">Washington in the American Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Commander-in-chief, Continental Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_aides-de-camp" title="Washington's aides-de-camp">Aides-de-camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Washington%27s_Headquarters_during_the_Revolutionary_War" title="List of Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War">Washington's headquarters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_tent" title="George Washington's tent">office and sleeping tent</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_campaign" title="Boston campaign">Boston campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_Jersey_campaign" title="New York and New Jersey campaign">New York and New Jersey campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">Delaware River crossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Battle of Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Assunpink_Creek" title="Battle of the Assunpink Creek">Battle of the Assunpink Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Princeton" title="Battle of Princeton">Battle of Princeton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_campaign" title="Philadelphia campaign">Philadelphia campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Battle of Brandywine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Germantown" title="Battle of Germantown">Battle of Germantown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_White_Marsh" title="Battle of White Marsh">Battle of White Marsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth" title="Battle of Monmouth">Battle of Monmouth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga" title="Battles of Saratoga">Battles of Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition" title="Sullivan Expedition">Sullivan Expedition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorktown_campaign" title="Yorktown campaign">Yorktown campaign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Siege of Yorktown</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culper_Ring" title="Culper Ring">Culper Spy Ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy" title="Newburgh Conspiracy">Newburgh Conspiracy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh_letter" title="Newburgh letter">Newburgh letter</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asgill_Affair" title="Asgill Affair">Asgill Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evacuation_Day_(New_York)" title="Evacuation Day (New York)">Evacuation Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_resignation_as_commander-in-chief" title="George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief">Resignation as commander-in-chief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badge_of_Military_Merit" title="Badge of Military Merit">Badge of Military Merit</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Before_Boston_Medal" title="Washington Before Boston Medal">Washington Before Boston Medal</a></li> <li>Horses <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_(horse)" title="Nelson (horse)">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blueskin_(horse)" title="Blueskin (horse)">Blueskin</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Other U.S.<br />founding events</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Association" title="Virginia Association">Initiated, co-wrote, 1769 Virginia Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfax_Resolves" title="Fairfax Resolves">Initiated, 1774 Fairfax Resolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Association" title="Continental Association">Continental Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeals_in_Cases_of_Capture" title="Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture">Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon_Conference" title="Mount Vernon Conference">1785 Mount Vernon Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Convention (United States)">Chairman, 1787 Constitutional Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_political_evolution" title="George Washington's political evolution">George Washington's political evolution</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington" title="Presidency of George Washington">Presidency</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_George_Washington_presidency" title="Timeline of the George Washington presidency">timeline)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1788%E2%80%9389_United_States_presidential_election" title="1788–89 United States presidential election">1788–89 United States presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_George_Washington" title="First inauguration of George Washington">First inauguration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Inaugural_Bible" title="George Washington Inaugural Bible">inaugural bible</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1792_United_States_presidential_election" title="1792 United States presidential election">1792 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_George_Washington" title="Second inauguration of George Washington">Second inauguration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_reception_at_Trenton" title="George Washington's reception at Trenton">Reception at Trenton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mr._President_(title)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mr. President (title)">Title of "Mr. President"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">Cabinet of the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">Secretary of State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">Secretary of the Treasury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War" title="United States Secretary of War">Secretary of War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1789" title="Judiciary Act of 1789">Judiciary Act of 1789</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_act_to_regulate_the_time_and_manner_of_administering_certain_oaths" title="An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths">Oath Administration Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonintercourse_Act" title="Nonintercourse Act">Nonintercourse Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion" title="Whiskey Rebellion">Whiskey Rebellion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Militia_Acts_of_1792" title="Militia Acts of 1792">Militia Acts of 1792</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792" title="Coinage Act of 1792">Coinage Act of 1792</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Mint" title="United States Mint">United States Mint</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act" title="Presidential Succession Act">Presidential Succession Act of 1792</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_cornerstone_laying" title="United States Capitol cornerstone laying">United States Capitol cornerstone laying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proclamation_of_Neutrality" title="Proclamation of Neutrality">Proclamation of Neutrality</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neutrality_Act_of_1794" title="Neutrality Act of 1794">Neutrality Act of 1794</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Treaty" title="Jay Treaty">Jay Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinckney%27s_Treaty" title="Pinckney's Treaty">Pinckney's Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_of_1794" title="Slave Trade Act of 1794">Slave Trade Act of 1794</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Residence_Act" title="Residence Act">Residence Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Proclamation" title="National Thanksgiving Proclamation">Thanksgiving Proclamation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address" title="George Washington's Farewell Address">Farewell Address</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1790_State_of_the_Union_Address" class="mw-redirect" title="1790 State of the Union Address">State of the Union Address 1790</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1791_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1791 State of the Union Address">1791</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1792_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1792 State of the Union Address">1792</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1793_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1793 State of the Union Address">1793</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1796_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1796 State of the Union Address">1796</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington#Administration,_Cabinet_and_Supreme_Court_appointments" title="Presidency of George Washington">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_George_Washington" title="List of federal judges appointed by George Washington">Federal judicial appointments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Rutledge_Supreme_Court_nominations" title="John Rutledge Supreme Court nominations">John Rutledge Supreme Court nominations</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Views and<br />public image</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fred_W._Smith_National_Library_for_the_Study_of_George_Washington" title="Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington">Presidential library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Papers" title="The Washington Papers">The Washington Papers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_views_of_George_Washington" title="Religious views of George Washington">Religious views</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery" title="George Washington and slavery">Washington and slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_Destroyer" title="Town Destroyer">Town Destroyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_George_Washington" title="Legacy of George Washington">Legacy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Life and homes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington#Early_life_(1732–1753)" title="George Washington">Early life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Birthplace_National_Monument" title="George Washington Birthplace National Monument">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferry_Farm" title="Ferry Farm">Ferry Farm boyhood home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Fishery" title="George Washington's Fishery">Fishery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Gristmill" title="George Washington's Gristmill">Gristmill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Rye_Whiskey" title="George Washington's Rye Whiskey">Whiskey distillery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodlawn_(Alexandria,_Virginia)" title="Woodlawn (Alexandria, Virginia)">Woodlawn Plantation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longfellow_House%E2%80%93Washington%27s_Headquarters_National_Historic_Site" title="Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site">Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Mansion" title="Ford Mansion">Ford Mansion, Washington's headquarters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_Headquarters_State_Historic_Site" title="Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site">Hasbrouck House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Osgood_House" title="Samuel Osgood House">First Presidential Mansion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Macomb_House" title="Alexander Macomb House">Second Presidential Mansion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President%27s_House_(Philadelphia)" title="President's House (Philadelphia)">President's House, Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germantown_White_House" title="Germantown White House">Germantown White House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Parke_Custis#Estate" title="Daniel Parke Custis">Custis estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_relations_with_the_Iroquois_Confederacy" title="George Washington's relations with the Iroquois Confederacy">Washington's relations with the Iroquois Confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potomac_Company" title="Potomac Company">Potomac Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_River_and_Kanawha_Canal" title="James River and Kanawha Canal">James River and Kanawha Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Road_Lottery" title="Mountain Road Lottery">Mountain Road Lottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Gold_Medal" title="Congressional Gold Medal">Congressional Gold Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanks_of_Congress" title="Thanks of Congress">Thanks of Congress</a></li> <li>President General of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati" title="Society of the Cincinnati">Society of the Cincinnati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_College" title="Washington College">Washington College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_and_Lee_University" title="Washington and Lee University">Washington and Lee University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_George_Washington" title="Electoral history of George Washington">Electoral history of George Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-presidency_of_George_Washington" title="Post-presidency of George Washington">Post-presidency of George Washington</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_George_Washington" title="List of memorials to George Washington">Memorials</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_George_Washington" title="Cultural depictions of George Washington">depictions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monument" title="Washington Monument">Washington Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" title="Mount Rushmore">Mount Rushmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidents%27_Day" title="Presidents' Day">Washington's Birthday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington" title="The Apotheosis of Washington">The Apotheosis of Washington</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monument_State_Park" title="Washington Monument State Park">Washington Monument (Boonsboro, Maryland)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monument_(Baltimore)" title="Washington Monument (Baltimore)">Washington Monument (Baltimore)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_George_Washington_(Houdon)" title="Statue of George Washington (Houdon)"><i>George Washington</i> (Houdon)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(copy_of_bust_by_Houdon)" title="George Washington (copy of bust by Houdon)">plaster copy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(Ceracchi)" title="George Washington (Ceracchi)"><i>George Washington</i> (Ceracchi)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(Canova)" title="George Washington (Canova)"><i>George Washington</i> (Canova)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(Greenough)" title="George Washington (Greenough)"><i>George Washington</i> (Greenough)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(Trumbull)" title="George Washington (Trumbull)"><i>George Washington</i> (Trumbull)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_and_the_Revolutionary_War_Door" title="George Washington and the Revolutionary War Door">George Washington and the Revolutionary War Door</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_War_Door" title="Revolutionary War Door">Revolutionary War Door</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_(1851_paintings)" title="Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)">Washington Crossing the Delaware</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passage_of_the_Delaware" title="The Passage of the Delaware">The Passage of the Delaware</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/General_George_Washington_at_Trenton" title="General George Washington at Trenton">General George Washington at Trenton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_at_Verplanck%27s_Point" title="Washington at Verplanck's Point">Washington at Verplanck's Point</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/General_George_Washington_Resigning_His_Commission" title="General George Washington Resigning His Commission">General George Washington Resigning His Commission</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Surrender_of_Lord_Cornwallis" title="Surrender of Lord Cornwallis">Surrender of Lord Cornwallis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athenaeum_Portrait" title="Athenaeum Portrait">Unfinished portrait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lansdowne_portrait" title="Lansdowne portrait">Lansdowne portrait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Family" title="The Washington Family">The Washington Family portrait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_at_Princeton" title="Washington at Princeton"><i>Washington at Princeton</i> paintings</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_George_Washington_Taking_the_Salute_at_Trenton" title="Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton">George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reception_to_Washington_on_April_21,_1789,_at_Trenton_on_his_way_to_New_York_to_Assume_the_Duties_of_the_Presidency_of_the_United_States" title="Reception to Washington on April 21, 1789, at Trenton on his way to New York to Assume the Duties of the Presidency of the United States">Reception at Trenton painting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_statues_of_George_Washington" title="List of statues of George Washington">Statues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton_Battle_Monument" title="Trenton Battle Monument">Trenton Battle Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeton_Battle_Monument" title="Princeton Battle Monument">Princeton Battle Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Point_of_View_(West)" title="Point of View (West)"><i>Point of View</i> sculpture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_on_Horseback" title="George Washington on Horseback">George Washington on Horseback</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_George_Washington_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Statue of George Washington (Austin, Texas)">Austin statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(Bartholomew)" title="George Washington (Bartholomew)">Baltimore statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_George_Washington_(Boston)" title="Equestrian statue of George Washington (Boston)">Boston statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_George_Washington_(Mexico_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Statue of George Washington (Mexico City)">Mexico City statue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_George_Washington_(Morristown,_New_Jersey)" title="Equestrian statue of George Washington (Morristown, New Jersey)">Morristown statue</a></li> <li><a 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