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Family: George Washington Parke Custis / Arianna Carter Custis (F8739)  ^[1] 

• Father | Male George Washington Parke Custis

  
  

  Born	30 Apr 1781	Colonial Virginia
  Died	10 Oct 1857	Alexandria County, Virginia
  Buried		Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia
  Married	Not married
  Other Spouse	Molly, Mary Lee Fitzhugh | F8736
  Married	1804	Arlington, Virginia
  Father	John Parke Custis | F8737 Group Sheet
  Mother	Martha Dandridge | F8737 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Arianna Carter Custis

  
  

  Born	1804	Arlington Co., Virginia
  Died	1886	Arlington County, Virginia
  Buried		Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland
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  [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81502491/maria-carter-syphax. Maria Carter Custis Syphax Birth 1804, Arlington County, Virginia Death 1886 (aged 81?82), Arlington, Virginia Burial: Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland Maria Carter Syphax, grew up a slave in Arlington, Virginia, the illegitimate daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and his housekeeper. In 1826 Custis?a wealthy landowner who was Martha Washington's grandson admitted paternity and freed Maria.Maria Syphax was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and Arianna Carter(1776-1880) a maid of Martha Washington. George Washington Parke Custis, and he was lord of the Arlington estate of 1,110 acres.It is stated, however, that Custis recognized Maria as his child and gave her a piece of property on the Arlington estate. This piece of land constituted 15 acres off the northwest corner of the Arlington estate and "her white cottage was surrounded by tall trees and pleasant stretches of grassland and the place was beautiful as well as homelike."