Arianna ‘Airy’ Carter

ARIANNA CARTER

Arianna Carter was an enslaved maid who was owned by George Washington Parke Custis. The Syphax Family

Genealogy

The Syphax Family

Maria Syphax was the daughter of an enslaved maid named Arianna Carter, and George Washington Parke Custis who was born in 1803 at an undetermined location. This may have been at Mount Vernon where Carter may have been enslaved, Arlington Plantation, or somewhere else. Maria may not have been Custis’s only child from an enslaved woman, but she seemed to receive special, paternal attention from him.