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John Parke Custis
- School: King's College
- Class Year: attended 1773
- War: Revolutionary War
- Date of Death: October 1781
John Parke Custis, called "Jacky," stepson of George Washington, served as an aide-de-camp to General Washington during the siege of Yorktown. He died of camp fever in October 1781, just after Lord Cornwallis's surrender on October 19.
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