Daniel Parke Custis

Daniel Parke Custis (15 October 1711 – 8 July 1757) was a wealthy Virginia planter whose widow, Martha, married George Washington. Custis was the son of John Custis (1678–1749), a powerful member of the Virginia governor's Council, and Frances Parke Custis [1] and was a grandson of Daniel Parke, also a member of the Council and governor of the Leeward Islands.

Custis was born in York County, Virginia, and died in New Kent County, Virginia. He married Martha Dandridge on 15 May 1750. They had four children:

• Daniel Parke Custis, Jr. (November 19, 1751 – February 19, 1754)
• Frances Parke Custis (April 12, 1753 – April 1, 1757)
• John “Jacky” Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781)
• Martha “Patsy” Parke Custis (1756 – June 19, 1773)

Daniel Parke Custis did not choose to take a leading role in colonial Virginia politics. Two years after his death, his widow, Martha, married George Washington, who became stepfather to the two surviving Custis children.

Descendants

Family of Daniel Parke Custis

16. Henry Lee I 8. Henry Lee II 17. Mary Bland 4. Henry Lee III 18. Charles Grymes 9. Lucy Grymes 19. Frances Jennings 2. Robert E. Lee 20. John Carter 10. Charles Carter 21. Elizabeth Hill 5. Anne Hill Carter 22. Bernard Moore 11. Ann Butler Moore 23. Anne Catherine Spotswood 1. Robert E. Lee, Jr. 24. Daniel Parke Custis 12. John Parke Custis 25. Martha Dandridge 6. George Washington Parke Custis 26. Benedict Swingate Calvert 13. Eleanor Calvert 27. Elizabeth Calvert Butler 3. Mary Anna Randolph Custis 28. Henry Fitzhugh 14. William Fitzhugh 29. Lucy Carter 7. Mary Lee Fitzhugh 30. Peter Randolph 15. Anne Randolph 31. Lucy Bolling