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George Washington Parke Custis 1781-1857, American dramatist, b. Mt. Airy, Md., educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). The grandson of Martha Washington, he grew up at Mt. Vernon and became heir to part of the Washington estate. He wrote several plays, including The Indian Prophecy (1827), Pocahontas (1830), and The Railroad (1830). Custis also wrote Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (1860).

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Custis, George Washington Parke (1781–1857), grandson of Martha Washington, was a Virginia planter who wrote historical plays as an avocation, and as a so‐called kindness to “poor rogues of actors.” Some of his works are The Indian Prophecy, a National Drama in Two Acts, Founded on …the Life of George Washington (1827), Pocahontas (1830), The Railroad (1830), North Point (1833), and The Eighth of January (1834). He also wrote Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (1859, greatly enlarged 1860).

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