Capt. John (Bay Side) (445) Custis, Sr.

1751 - 1809  (58 years)

• Name	John (Bay Side) (445) Custis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	23 Feb 1750/51	Accomack Co, Virginia   [3, 6, 7]
  	He was shown as John Custis, son of Thomas Custis and Cassey his wife, born 23 Feb 1750 and departed this life on the 3rd day of March, A.D. 1809 about 11 o'clock in the morning. AP&P shows 23 Feb 1751.
  Gender	Male
  Will - Fathers	9 May 1763	Accomack Co, Virginia   [1]
  	He was shown as a son John Custis (under age) in the will of Thomas Custis.
  Rev War Veteran	25 Nov 1777	Accomack Co, Virginia   [4, 5, 8]
  	He was shown as John Custis (Bayside), a Captain in the Militia in room of William Riley.
  Will - Brothers	23 Nov 1797	Accomack Co, Virginia   [9]
  	In his will Robinson Custis, wife no name, mentioned 4 children Thomas, Peter, Fanny & Edmund all under age, and a brother John Custis guardian & Extr, who was shown as John Custis B.S. at probate.
  Will - Mothers	22 Jul 1801	Accomack Co, Virginia   [2]
  	He was shown as son John Custis in the will of Cassia Custis.
  Security on Admin	26 Jul 1802	Accomack Co, Virginia   [10]
  	It was on this date that administration on the estate of Elizabeth Blonton(sic) (Blackston) was granted to Thomas Wise with John Custis & Thomas Custis securities.
  Will - Nephews	12 Jan 1806	Accomack Co, Virginia   [11]
  	He was shown as an Uncle John Custis and along with Uncle Thomas Custis and friend John Wise, was an Exec. in the will of Thomas Wise, St. George Parish.
  Will	1 Jun 1808	Accomack Co, Virginia   [12]
  	He was shown as John Custis Sr., Deep Creek. To wife during the term of her life the cleared land of my plantation whereon I live from ... to land adjacent to the creek opposite Tully Wise lower peach orchard & Indian Bridge Gut except my son John houses & the ground adjacent thereto ... To wife slaves Rachel, young Peter, Abraham & Jim ... & $1,000 & the lands to be in lieu of dower. To son John all the lands which I have conveyed to him by deed. To sons William & Samuel all the rest of my lands in the County of Accomack, except the land in my deed to my son John. William is to have the part on Deep Creek & Samuel to have the part on Little Doe Creek. To sons William & Samuel my interest in Deep Creek Mill. If either dies under age, then the survivor gets money. Road from house to main road to remain for the benefit of my son John Custis which is on lands given to son William. To each daughter Margaret Pitts, Sarah, Catherine, Elizabeth Custis & Susanna Hancock Custis £1,000. To daughter Margaret Pitts Negro girl Leah now in her possession. To daughter Sarah Custis Negro girl Pleasant. To daughter Catharine Custis (Negro) Sabra. To daughter Elizabeth Custis (Negro) Leah. To daughter Susanna Hancock Custis (Negroes) Thomas & Agnes. To son Thomas Custis all the money that I have lent him in part payment of his land which is £2,000 which I think is his full proportion of my real estate with what I have expended on his education more than the rest of my children. Remainder to my wife & all my children & daughter Margaret Pitt shall bring into such division all the slaves that I have lent her, except Leah. Wife, sons Thomas & John Custis & son-in-law Major S. Pitts Extrs.Witt: John Wise, John Cropper Jr. & Richard D. Bayly.
  Death	3 Mar 1809	Accomack Co, Virginia   [3, 6, 7, 13]
  Probate	31 Mar 1809	Accomack Co, Virginia   [12]
  	Thomas Custis Sr., William R. Custis, Richard D. Bayly, Thomas M. Bayly & Elijah Grinnalds securities on the $50,000 bond.
  Est Settmt	31 Jul 1815	Accomack Co, Virginia   [14]
  	31 Mar 1809 (Order to Invy), 18 Sep 1809 (Invy), 24 Oct 1809 (Sale), 29 May 1815 (Audit), 31 Jul 1815 (Rec'd) - John Custis & M. S. Pitts Extrs. In inventory on 18 Sep 1809 Negroes George the elder, John, Isaac, Victor, legacy to Mrs. Custis (James, Abraham, Peter, Rachel), Moses, Abraham Milliner, Matt, Parriss, George the younger, Jacob, legacy to Susan H. Custis (Agnes & Tamer), legacy to Catharine Custis (Sabra J.), legacy to Elizabeth Custis (Leah), legacy to Sarah Custis (Pleasant), Sabra & 2 children Nanny & Major, Cate, Sarah, Leah the younger, Uinah, Flaro & child Spencer, Peter the older, Joshua, James & Patience. Legacy to William Custis. Buyers: Catharine Custis (widow), John Custis, William R. Custis, Elizabeth Custis, Sarah Custis, Betsy Custis & Thomas V. Custis. Cash paid to the following: William R. Custis, Thomas Custis part of Cassy Custis' estate; Thomas Custis of R. for rent of mill for 1809; expenses for traveling to Nansemond & Princess Anne to collect money due estate; John Scott, orphan of Walter, on account; clerk of Norfolk for clerk fees; Catharine Custis, guardian to Susannah H. Custis. The following legacies were paid: £1,000 to Sally Custis, Catharine Custis, Eliza Custis & Major S. Pitts for his wife Margaret (£1,008). Auditors: William Seymour & Severn E. Parker.
  Reference Identifer	DAR Patriot #A029137 (Capt. Militia in 1777)
  Record ID	40309
  Person ID	I40309	MilesFiles23
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Maj. Thomas (570) Custis,   b. 22 Sep 1726, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 6 Feb 1764, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Cassandra 'Cassy' (160) Wise,   b. 7 Apr 1728, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 26 Apr 1803, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	21 Jun 1748	Accomack Co, Virginia   [3, 6, 7]
  	Major Thomas Custis, son of John Custis and Susanah his wife, and Cassey Wise, daughter of Major John Wise & Scarburgh his wife, were married the 21st day of June, A.D. 1748.
  Family ID	F12684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catharine (180) Parker,   b. 30 Mar 1753, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 19 Sep 1840, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	17 Dec 1772	Accomack Co, Virginia   [3, 6, 7, 13]
  	John Custis and Catherine his wife was married the 17th of Dec 1772. The aforesaid John Custis departed this life the 3rd day of March, ..29(sic), of a fryday about elivin oClock & the aforesaid Catherine Custis departed this life the 19 September 1840.
  Children	+ 1. Dr. Thomas V. Custis,   b. 19 Oct 1773, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 29 Jan 1821, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 47 years) + 2. Margaret Ann Custis,   b. 11 Feb 1776, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 5 Jan 1827, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 50 years) + 3. John Custis, Sr.,   b. 2 May 1778, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 17 Nov 1848 (Age 70 years)   4. George Custis,   b. 25 Jun 1780, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 7 Feb 1800, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 19 years)   5. Sarah 'Sally' Custis,   b. 19 Dec 1781, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 2 Mar 1832, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 50 years)   6. Catharine Custis,   b. 15 Sep 1783, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 24 Apr 1839 (Age 55 years) + 7. Elizabeth Custis,   b. 14 Sep 1785, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 25 Dec 1818, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 33 years)   8. William Parker Custis,   b. 7 May 1788, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 6 Nov 1838, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 50 years)   9. Samuel Custis, (1st),   b. 14 Oct 1789, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 25 Jun 1790, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 0 years)   10. Samuel Custis, (2nd),   b. 2 Apr 1791, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 20 Sep 1808, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 17 years)   11. Hancock Custis,   b. 24 Jul 1794, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 14 Jan 1798, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 3 years)   12. Susanna Hancock Custis,   b. 10 Sep 1798, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 3 Dec 1822, Accomack Co, Virginia (Age 24 years)
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F12690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S570] Stratton Nottingham, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1663-1800, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990), p. 217 (will of Thomas Custis), 570. [S688] Moody K. Miles III & Barry W. Miles, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1800-1860, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000), p. 148 (will of Cassia Custis), 688. [S940] John Frederick Dorman, Dorman, Adv of Purse & Person, 4th Ed, Vol 3, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 2007), p. 545 (Anthony West Family), 940. [S575] Nottingham, Soldiers & Sailors of the E.S. of VA, (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1995), p. 2, 575. [S3025] JoAnn Hines, Hines, JoAnn - DAR Patroits of Accomack Co, VA, (Provided to MK Miles by Mary Jane Burn, 10 Mar 2018), 3025. [S1001] Thomas Teackle Upshur, Upshur, Thomas Teackle - Gen of the Kingdom of Acc, (Manuscript Collection at the Swem Library, College of William & Mary), 5 pages of Custis, Wise & Pitts family data were found loose between pages 214 & 215 in Vol 1, Box 10 by E. Spencer Wise on 15 April 1986 and placed in his Wise family folder at the E.S.P.L., 1001. [S550] Jean M. Mihalyka, Mihalyka, Acc & N'hamp Co Bible Records, (Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, VA), Vol. 4, pp 96-101 (Pitts - Custis Bible, printed by Thomas Dobson at the Stone House No. 41, South Second Street, Philadelphia, 1799. Copied 1980 by Robert A. Pitts, 215 Woodland Drive, State College, PA 16801 and typed by Lila H. Schmidt for this compilation in Feb. 1981), 550. [S577] Walker & Turman, Acc Soldiers & Sailors in Rev, (Parksley, VA: A Project of the Eastern Shore Chapter National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1975 (Manuscript at the E.S.P.L.)), 577. [S570] Stratton Nottingham, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1663-1800, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990), p. 450 (will of Robinson Custis), 570. [S688] Moody K. Miles III & Barry W. Miles, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1800-1860, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000), p. 71 (adm of Elizabeth Blonton(sic) (Blackston) to Thomas Wise), 688. [S688] Moody K. Miles III & Barry W. Miles, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1800-1860, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000), p. 622 (will of Thomas Wise, St. George Parish), 688. [S688] Moody K. Miles III & Barry W. Miles, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1800-1860, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000), p. 152 (will of John Custis Sr., Deep Creek), 688. [S550] Jean M. Mihalyka, Mihalyka, Acc & N'hamp Co Bible Records, (Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac, VA), Vol. 2, pp 70-71 (Catherine Custis Bible, printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, printers to the University and fold by S. Crowder in Paternoster Row, London; and by W. Jackson in Oxford, 1772. This Bible was given to the NSDAR Chapters on the Eastern Shore of Virginia by Mrs. F.W. Wrightson, 1 Oak Place, Baltimore, MD 21218 with the understanding that it be placed so that the genealogical material would be available to the researcher. It will be given to the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society, Kerr Place, Onancock, VA. Copied by Jean M. Mihalyka, Oct. 1976.), 550. [S570] Stratton Nottingham, Accomack Co, VA, Wills & Administrations, 1663-1800, (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990), p. 151 (settlement of John Custis Sr., B.S.), 570.