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George Washington Parke Custis ( April 30 , 1781 – October 19 , 1857 ), was the adopted son (and also step-grandson) of United States President George Washington . He was the grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage. After his natural father John Parke Custis died, he moved to Mount Vernon to stay with George and Martha Washington. While George Washington lived in Germantown , Custis was sent to Germantown Academy (then called the Union School Of Germantown ), from which he eventually graduated. Custis went on to attend St. John's College and Princeton University . In 1802 , he began the construction of Arlington House on land he had inherited from his natural father. He intended the house to also serve as a memorial to his adoptive father. The house has been restored and is now open to the public as part of the National Park Service . In . Mary Custis later married Robert E. Lee at Arlington in 1831 . In 1799 , Custis was commissioned as a Colonel in the United States Army and Aide-de-camp to General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney . Later, Custis volunteered in the defense of Washington, D.C. during the War Of 1812 . In 1853 , historian Benson J. Lossing visited Custis at Arlington House. See the Cornell University Library transcription of Harper's New Monthly Magazine article: {Link without Title} (starting on page 433). Four of the Custis paintings mentioned in Harper's article can be seen in color (Battle of Germantown/Battle of Trenton/Battle of Princeton/Washington at Yorktown) in the February 1966 issue of American Heritage Magazine . Custis is also notable for having collaborated with Francis Scott Key as a Playwright . Furthermore, Custis wrote the first popular biography of his step-grandfather/adoptive father, entitled ''Recollections of Washington,'' which was Posthumously edited and published by his daughter. EXTERNAL LINKS
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