James B. Lynch Collection Finding Aid MS022 A detailed guide, index and folder list exists.

James B. Lynch Collection Finding Aid MS022

A detailed guide, index and folder list exists.


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Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc

Repository
Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
Identification
MS022
Title
James B. Lynch Collection (MS022) 1974-1993
URL:
https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/45
Quantity
.115 Cubic Feet, 24 folders
source
Lynch, James B., Jr., Dr., 1919-2008
Language
English .

Administrative Information

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


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).

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.

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 Material

The library has in its collection the two volumes of The Custis Chronicles. Both are located at 929.2 Custis Lyn.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Custis family
  • Genealogy
  • Lee family
  • Lynch, James B., Jr., Dr., 1919-2008
  • Parke family
  • Washington family

Container List

Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-1
Crombrugghe family - genealogical information, correspondence
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-2
Charles Dunbar/Daniel Parke Custis case - photocopy
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-3
John Custis will - photocopy
1690
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-4
John Smithier will - transcription and photocopy
1618
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-5
Herve Douxchamps - correspondence and Rubens genealogy
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-6
George Washington Parke Custis - correspondence and survey of Arlington plantation - photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-7
Barbados - maps, correspondence, notes
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-8
Daniel Parke Custis - appraisal of estate - photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-9
Jeremiah King will - transcription
1666
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-10
Edmund Custis and "wreck-fishing" - article, maps, photocopy of patent
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-11
John and William Custis - naturalization papers - photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-12
Daniel Parke - account of debts and legacies paid by William Byrd - copy
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-13
John Parke Custis - will and inventories - photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-14
Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, the Netherlands - correspondence
1993
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-15
Edmund Custis of Rotterdam will - transcription and translation
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-16
Exhibition catalog - "Washington-Custis-Lee Family Portraits from the Collection of Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia"
1974
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-17
Arlington House, Eastern Shore of Virginia - clippings, brochure
1990
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-18
John Custis - account of "Real and personal Estate" - photocopy
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-19
Nelly Custis and Eleanor Custis Stewart, obituaries - photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-20
Brochure - "A Patent of Nobility" (Lewis, Washington and Custis genealogy)
1992
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-21
George Bolling Lee - Letter to Jack Custis - copy
1778
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-22
Additional notes and photocopies
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-23
Partial list of donated items
Text Assorted Box: 01 folder: 22-24
Transcriptions