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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Washington and Custis Families Account Book, WLU Coll 0138, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mary Custis Lee, 1907. Previously part of Custis papers in possession of Lee family. The account book was buried during the American Civil War.

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 Parke Custis estate submitted to the General Court in October 1759. Six leaves include estate accounts for Augustine Washington and are in the hand of Thomas Jett, 1766-1771.

Related Material

WLU-Coll-0012: George Washington Collection

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Custis, Daniel Parke
• Custis, John Parke
• Custis, Martha Parke
• Estates (Law)
• Lee, Mary Custis
• Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate)
• Washington, Augustine