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"Martha Parke Custis aka Patsy: Martha was born in 1756 and died when she was 17 of an epileptic seizure on June 19, 1773. She was buried at Mount Vernon."

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Pleasantest Glimpses of Family Feeling

'The pleasantest glimpses of family feeling are gained, however, in his relations with his wife's children and grandchildren. John Parke and Martha Parke Custis—or " Jack " and " Patsy," as he called them—were at the date of his marriage respectively six and four years of age, and in the first invoice of goods to be shipped to him from London after he had become their stepfather, Washington ordered " 10 shillings worth fo Toys," " 6 little books for children beginning to read," and "1 fashionable-dressed baby to cost 10 shillings." When this latter shared the usual fate, he further wrote for " i fashionable dress Doll to cost a guinea," and for " a box of Gingerbread Toys & Sugar Images or Comfits." A little later he ordered a Bible and PrayerBook for each, "neatly bound in Turkey," with names " in gilt letters on the inside of the cover, " followed ere long by an order for " 1 very good Spinet." As Patsy grew to girlhood she developed fits, and " solely on her account to try (by the advice of her Physician) the effect of the waters on her Complaint," Washington took the family over the mountains and camped at the "Warm Springs" in 1769, with "little benefit," for, after ailing four years longer, " she was seized with one of her usual Fits & expired in it, in less than two minutes without uttering a word, or groan, or scarce a sigh." "The Sweet Innocent Girl," Washington wrote, " entered into a more happy & peaceful abode than she has met with in the afflicted Path she has hitherto trod," but none the less "it is an easier matter to conceive than to describe the distress of this family" at the loss of " dear Patsy Custis. "' The True George Washington, Paul Leicester Ford, p. 29.

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