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| birth_date = {{birth date|1711|10|15|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = [[York County, Virginia]],
| death_date = {{death date and age|1757|07|08|1711|10|15|mf=yes}}
| death_place = [[New Kent County, Virginia]], British America
| resting_place = [[Bruton Parish Church|Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery]]
| occupation = Planter and Politician
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Martha Washington|Martha Dandridge]]|1750<!--Template:Marriage instructions - omit year of end of marriage when caused by death of article subject-->}}
| children = Daniel Parke Custis Jr.<br />Frances Parke Custis<br />[[John Parke Custis|John Parke "Jacky" Custis]]<br />[[Martha Parke Custis|Martha "Patsy" Parke Custis]]
| parents = [[John Custis|John Custis IV]]<br />Frances Parke Custis
| relatives = [[Daniel Parke]] (maternal grandfather)
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'''Daniel Parke Custis''' (October 15, 1711<ref name="welsh">{{cite book|last=Welsh Harrison|first=William |title=Harrison, Waples and Allied Families: Being the Ancestry Of George Leib Harrison Of Philadelphia and Of His Wife Sarah Ann Waples|url=https://archive.org/details/harrisonwaplesal00harr|year=1910|page=[https://archive.org/details/harrisonwaplesal00harr/page/98 98]}}</ref> – July 8, 1757) was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of [[Martha Washington|Martha Dandridge]]. After his death, his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis married [[George Washington]], who later became the first [[
▲'''Daniel Parke Custis''' (October 15, 1711<ref name="welsh">{{cite book|last=Welsh Harrison|first=William |title=Harrison, Waples and Allied Families: Being the Ancestry Of George Leib Harrison Of Philadelphia and Of His Wife Sarah Ann Waples|url=https://archive.org/details/harrisonwaplesal00harr|year=1910|page=[https://archive.org/details/harrisonwaplesal00harr/page/98 98]}}</ref> – July 8, 1757) was an American planter and politician who was the first husband of [[Martha Washington|Martha Dandridge]]. After his death, Dandridge married [[George Washington]], the first [[President of the United States]].
==Early life and career==
Custis was born in [[York County, Virginia]], on October 15, 1711. He was one of two children of [[John Custis|John Custis IV]] (1678–1749), a powerful member of Virginia's Governor's Council, and Frances Parke Custis. The Custis family was one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent of Virginia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Watson|first=Robert P. |title=Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900|year=2012|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-442-21834-5|page=97}}</ref> Custis's mother, Frances, was the daughter of [[Daniel Parke
As Daniel Custis was the sole male heir in the Custis family, he inherited the Southern plantations owned by his father.<ref name="gould">{{cite book|editor=Gould, Lewis L.|title=American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-31148-3|page=2}}</ref> However,
==Marriage and children==
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*Frances Parke Custis (April 12, 1753 – April 1, 1757)
*[[John Parke Custis|John Parke "Jacky" Custis]] (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781)
*[[Martha Parke Custis|Martha Parke "Patsy" Custis]] (1756 – June 19, 1773)
==Death==
Custis died on July 8, 1757, in [[New Kent County, Virginia]]
Custis is buried in the graveyard of the [[Bruton Parish Church]] in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]] ==Estate==
As Custis died [[intestate]], or
Upon Martha Custis's marriage to [[George Washington]] in 1759, her dower share came under his control, pursuant to the common law doctrine of [[seisin]] [[jure uxoris]]. He also became guardian of her two minor children, and administrator of the Custis estate. [[John Parke Custis]] was the only child to reach his majority, upon which he inherited the non-dower two-thirds of his father's estate.
Upon George Washington's death on December 14, 1799, the dower share and slaves reverted to Martha. Through a provision in his will, Washington directed that his 124 slaves be freed following his wife's death.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1796-02-07 |title=George Washington to Dr. David Stuart |url=http://etext.virgiia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=WasFi34.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=334&division=div1 |quote=Washington's private letters indicate a plan to rent out the dower slaves to other plantations, with the income going toward purchasing them from the Custis Estate and ultimately freeing them. That would have required the approval of all the Custis heirs to succeed, but it is not known why it was never implemented.
Washington's slaves were not part of the Custis estate, and Martha had no legal power to free them or the dower slaves, but they were freed at her request on January 1, 1801. The principal reason that Martha gave for requesting that her husband's slaves be set free is that she was concerned about her personal safety. Washington's slaves, having found out that they would be free upon her death, were suspected of wanting to hasten her death. They were also perceived as being restive and were believed to have been the cause of several suspicious fires on the [[Mount Vernon
When Martha died on May 22, 1802, her dower share reverted to the Custis estate. Because of Martha Washington's dower share, the estate could not be liquidated for more than 45 years. Martha's dower share was eventually divided between John Parke Custis's widow, [[Eleanor Calvert|Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart]], and their four children. Martha also bequeathed Elisha, the one slave she owned herself, to her grandson [[George Washington Parke Custis]].
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