Betty (slave)

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Betty (c. 1738 – 1795) was a biracial woman who was enslaved by John Custis, and then by his son, Daniel Parke Custis, on the family's plantation in White House, Virginia. Daniel Parke Custis became the first husband of Martha Washington and was the father of her four children. He died in 1757. When widow Martha Custis married George Washington in 1759, Betty and her young son Austin were brought to Mount Vernon. There Betty gave birth to four more children, including Oney Judge. A year after Betty's 1795 death, Oney Judge successfully escaped to freedom from the Washingtons.

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