Scope and Contents

File includes a photocopied catalogue of the Library of Daniel Parke Custis: From a Manuscript in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, "The Magazine of History and Biography," October 1909, pages 404-412.

Content Description

A modern black and white photograph of John Wollaston's painting of Daniel Parke Custis. Wollaston's portrait was done in 1757. The original painting is owned by Washington and Lee University.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of an account book kept by the Washington and Custis families. The account book is stained and faded, having been buried during the American Civil War. It consists of 36 leaves containing George Washington's formal record of the settlement of the Daniel Parke Custis estate and of his guardianship of his stepchildren, John Parke and Martha Parke Custis and are in Washington's handwriting, 1761-1773. It also provides the inventories and proposed division of the Daniel...