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"George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) - the step-grandson (and adopted son) of United States President George Washington, was a nineteenth-century American writer, orator, and agricultural reformer."

"Upon reaching his majority in 1802, he inherited vast sums of money, land and slaves from the estates of his father and grandfather, as well as bequests from his grandmother and step-grandfather. Almost immediately, he began the construction of Arlington House on a high hill directly across the Potomac River from the Mall in Washington, D.C.. It took 16 years to complete the mansion, which he intended to serve as a living memorial to George Washington."

"On July 7, 1804, Custis married Mary Lee Fitzhugh. Of their four children, only one daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, survived. She married Robert E. Lee at Arlington House on June 30, 1831 . . . In 1799, Custis was commissioned as a cornet in the United States Army and aide-de-camp to general Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. During the War of 1812 . . . Custis volunteered in the defense of Washington, D.C., at the Battle of Bladensburg . . . In 1825, Lafayette and his son Georges Washington de La Fayette visited him at Mount Vernon."

"Custis was notable as an orator and playwright. Two addresses delivered during the War of 1812 had national circulation . . . "

"Two of Custis's plays, The Indian Prophecy; or Visions of Glory (1827) and Pocahontas; or, The Settlers of Virginia (1830), were published. Other plays include The Rail Road (1828), The Eighth of January, or, Hurra for the Boys of the West! (ca. 1830), North Point, or, Baltimore Defended (1833), and Montgomerie, or, The Orphan of a Wreck (1836). Custis wrote a series of biographical essays about his adoptive father, collectively entitled Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, which was posthumously edited and published by his daughter."

"At the outbreak of the Civil War, the 1,100-acre Arlington Plantation was confiscated by Union forces for strategic reasons (protection of the river and national capital) . . . "

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