Eleanor Parke Custis (also known as “Nelly”) was the new youngest off Martha Washingtons about three granddaughters. Custis was born at the Abingdon, the home of the woman parents, John Parke Custis and you may Eleanor Calvert, toward erican Wave. With George Washington best the fresh Continental Army along with her granny expenses a lot of their big date at his military headquarters, Nelly don’t select George and you may Martha Washington often for the war years.