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14 de jun. de 2024 · La casa había sido construida a principios de siglo por George Washington Parke Custis, un nieto de Martha Washington (la esposa del presidente Washington ), que por falta de padres se había...
27 de jun. de 2024 · Immediately on resigning his commission, Washington was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two children living and two dead, and possessed one of the considerable fortunes of Virginia.
29 de jun. de 2024 · A couple of years after he married, John Parke Custis (Martha Washington’s son and George Washington’s stepson), purchased two plantations in northern Virginia to be closer to his mother at Mount Vernon. One was an 1,100-acre tract he named “Arlington.”
26 de jun. de 2024 · In 1826, the Middlesex Gazette […] reported enthusiastically on George Washington Parke Custis’s gift of a lock of his namesake’s hair to Simón Bolivar, the “George Washington of South America.”
19 de jun. de 2024 · Enslaved individuals from George Washington's estate, Mount Vernon, built Arlington House before working on the property and in the home. General Robert E Lee, who in 1831 married Mary...
27 de jun. de 2024 · The honesty-is-the-best-policy moral could also be drawn from a story told by Washington’s step-grandson, George Washington Parke Custis. Custis recounted how young George tried to tame a horse that was his mother’s favorite but that was too fierce to ride.
Hace 5 días · After Martha's death on May 22, 1802, most of the remaining dower slaves passed to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, to whom she bequeathed the only slave she held in her own name. There are few records of how the newly freed slaves fared.
