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Custis Tombs, also known as Custis cemetery at Arlington, is a historic family burial ground located near Cheapside, Northampton County, Virginia. It consists of two tombs surrounded by a poured concrete platform raised a few inches above ground level. It includes the grave of John Custis (c. 1629–1696), Major General and member of the ...
22 de dic. de 2021 · Custis was born in on the Queen’s Creek plantation of his parents, John Custis, who became a member of the governor’s Council in 1727, and . His uncle William Byrd (1674–1744), also a member of the Council, and Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood stood as his godfathers. A member of one of the colony’s wealthiest landed families, Custis was the child of an unhappy marriage. Read ...
2 de jun. de 2023 · The monument marking the grave of John Custis IV is one of Virginia’s most ambitious examples of colonial funerary art. The elaborately carved pyramidal-topped marble block is decorated with the Custis family coat-of-arms, a drapery-framed inscription, and a human skull motif. It was executed around 1750 by William Colley of Fenn Church ...
John Custis (1678-1749) is the subject of this eighteenth-century portrait by Charles Bridges. Custis, who created a magnificent garden in Williamsburg, is depicted with a cut tulip and a book titled Of the Tulip.
John Custis III began serving in the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly on July 19, 1700, and held that office until his death, although his last recorded appearance was on April 30, 1713. Meanwhile, his son John Custis IV began representing Northampton County in the House of Burgesses in 1705. Personal life
John Custis II (Sr.) (1629 – January 29, 1696) was a North American Colonial British merchant and planter who aligned with governor William Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion and began a political career in which he served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and became one of the founders of the Custis family, one of the First Families of Virginia.
Wine Siphon Possibly New York 1775-1800 Silver Loan courtesy of former MESDA Advisory Board member Andy Williams. John Custis IV (1673-1747) Charles Bridges (d.1747) Williamsburg, Virginia 1725 Oil on Canvas HOA: 34 1/2"; WOA: 26 1/4" Loan courtesy of the Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
