Autograph letter signed : to Mrs. Geo. Wash. Parke Custis, [1832 Jun.] Wednesday morning.
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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...
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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (April 22, 1788 – April 23, 1853) was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery. In 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Custis Washington. The Custises lived at Arlington House....
