Letter [manuscript] : Millwood, to Mary Lee Custis, Arlington, Va., 1825 May 30.

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Letter [manuscript] : Millwood, to Mary Lee Custis, Arlington, Va., 1825 May 30.

Bishop Meade writes to his cousin, sending family news. He also discusses his desire to emancipate his slaves as soon as possible and his attempts to persuade the slaves to leave the country.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Custis (Family : Virginia)

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John Custis was born August 1678 in Northampton County, Virginia, and was educated in England. He lived in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he served as a vestryman for Bruton Parish. Custis was also successful planter, merchant, colonel in the Virginia militia, burgess, and member of the Governor's Council. He married Frances Parke (1687-1715) in August 1705. His son, Daniel Parke Custis was born 15 October 1710 in James City County. He was a successful planter in New Kent County, Vi...

Mead family.

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Meade, William, 1789-1862

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Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of William Meade papers, 1811-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 660160649 Born 11 November 1789, the son of Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Fitzhugh (Grymes) Meade, William Meade graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1808. He married Mary Nelson (d. 1817) and Thomasia Nelson. He was elected Bishop of the Protestant Church in Virginia and Presiding Bishop of the 1861 Convention...

Custis, Mary Lee Fitzhugh, 1788-1853

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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (April 22, 1788 – April 23, 1853) was the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the wife of Robert E. Lee. Early in the 1820s Custis helped form a coalition of women who hoped to eradicate slavery. In 1804, she married George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Custis Washington. The Custises lived at Arlington House....