Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
James B. Lynch Collection (MS022)
Lynch, James B., Jr., Dr., 1919-2008
MS022
/repositories/2/resources/45
.115 Cubic Feet
24 folders
1974-1993
English
AB01
Content Description
The collection consists of the research materials used by Dr. Lynch in writing The Custis
Chronicles. Materials include correspondence; copies of wills, inventories and other documents; and articles and other publications about the Custis family.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. James B. Lynch was a professor of art history at the University of Maryland. After his retirement, he spent several years researching the history of the Custis family in Europe and America. He authored a two-volume work on the family: The Custis Chronicles: The Years of
Migration (published 1993) and The Custis Chronicles: The Virginia Generations (published 1997).
Arrangement
Dr. Lynch had organized the materials into several subject areas. These subject divisions have been retained in the collection, and a few new subject divisions have been created out of the group of miscellaneous documents found in the file.
Related Materials
The library has in its collection the two volumes of The Custis Chronicles. Both are located at 929.2 Custis Lyn.
Preferred Citation
[Item identification], James B. Lynch Collection, MS022, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated James B. Lynch Jr., March 30, 2000
Genealogy
Custis family
Washington family
Lee Family
Parke family
Lynch, James B., Jr., Dr., 1919-2008
Crombrugghe family - genealogical information, correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330AB0122-1Charles Dunbar/Daniel Parke Custis case - photocopy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331AB0122-2John Custis will - photocopy/repositories/2/archival_objects/23321690AB0122-3John Smithier will - transcription and photocopy/repositories/2/archival_objects/23331618AB0122-4Herve Douxchamps - correspondence and Rubens genealogy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334AB0122-5George Washington Parke Custis - correspondence and survey of Arlington plantation - photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2335AB0122-6Barbados - maps, correspondence, notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336AB0122-7Daniel Parke Custis - appraisal of estate - photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337AB0122-8Jeremiah King will - transcription/repositories/2/archival_objects/23381666AB0122-9Edmund Custis and "wreck-fishing" - article, maps, photocopy of patent/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339AB0122-10John and William Custis - naturalization papers - photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2340AB0122-11Daniel Parke - account of debts and legacies paid by William Byrd - copy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2341AB0122-12John Parke Custis - will and inventories - photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2342AB0122-13Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, the Netherlands - correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/23431993AB0122-14Edmund Custis of Rotterdam will - transcription and translation/repositories/2/archival_objects/2344AB0122-15Exhibition catalog - "Washington-Custis-Lee Family Portraits from the Collection of Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia"/repositories/2/archival_objects/23451974AB0122-16Arlington House, Eastern Shore of Virginia - clippings, brochure/repositories/2/archival_objects/23461990AB0122-17John Custis - account of "Real and personal Estate" - photocopy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2347AB0122-18Nelly Custis and Eleanor Custis Stewart, obituaries - photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2348AB0122-19Brochure - "A Patent of Nobility" (Lewis, Washington and Custis genealogy)/repositories/2/archival_objects/23491992AB0122-20George Bolling Lee - Letter to Jack Custis - copy/repositories/2/archival_objects/23501778AB0122-21Additional notes and photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/2351AB0122-22Partial list of donated items/repositories/2/archival_objects/2352AB0122-23Transcriptions/repositories/2/archival_objects/2353AB0122-24