Eleanor Calvert

Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
Miniature painting of Eleanor Calvert, c1780, by an unknown artist; possibly the Irish-American painter John Ramage (1748-1802).
Born	Eleanor Calvert Mount Airy, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Province of Maryland
Spouse(s)	John Parke Custis Dr. David Stuart
Children	Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Martha Parke Custis Peter Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis George Washington Parke Custis Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson Sarah Stuart Waite Ariana Calvert Stuart William Skolto Stuart Eleanor Custis Stuart Charles Calvert Stuart Rosalie Eugenia Stuart Webster
Parent(s)	Benedict Swingate Calvert Elizabeth Calvert

Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart (1757/1758 – September 28, 1811) was a prominent member of the Calvert family of Maryland. Upon her marriage to John Parke Custis, she became the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and the stepdaughter-in-law George Washington. Her portrait hangs today at Mount Airy Mansion in Rosaryville State Park, Maryland.

Eleanor Calvert was born in 1758 at the Calvert family's Mount Airy plantation near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland. Eleanor was the second eldest daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and his wife Elizabeth Calvert Butler. She was known to her family as "Nelly." As a teenager, Eleanor was an exceptionally pretty girl and well-mannered.

Eleanor married John Parke Custis, son of the late Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (and stepson of George Washington), on February 3, 1774 at Mount Airy. "Jacky", as he was known by his family, announced his engagement to Eleanor to his parents, who were greatly surprised by the marriage choice due to the couple's youth. After their marriage, the couple settled at the White House plantation, a Custis estate on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia. After the couple had lived at the White House for more than two years, John Parke Custis purchased the Abingdon plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia (now in Arlington County, Virginia), into which the couple settled during the winter of 1778-1779.