Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 13_1755_02

Dunbar v Custis

Virginia 

 

Case Name Short

Dunbar v Custis

 
Case Name Long

Charles Dunbar v Daniel Parke Custis

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

view_APC

APC Citation 

v.4 [270] p.288–289 – 3 April 1755 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.15 (1 January 1754 – 31 December 1755) p.370: PC 2/104/370

view  

APC Citation 

v.4 [270] p.289–290 – 30 June 1757 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.16 (1 January 1756 – 31 December 1757) p.531, 534–537, 540: PC 2/105/531, 534–537, 540

view  

Colonial Courts

Virginia Chancery – 10 April 1754

Participants

Byam, Samuel (executor of Governor Parke)

Byrd, Lucy (presumed deceased daughter of Governor Parke and mother of Wilhelmina Chamberlain)

Chamberlain, Thomas (husband of Wilhelmina Chamberlain)

Chamberlain, Wilhelmina (daughter of Lucy Byrd and wife of Thomas Chamberlain)

Chester, Catherine (mother of Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke)

Custis, Daniel Parke (son of and executor to John Custis)

Custis, Frances Parke (presumed deceased daughter of Governor Parke and wife of John Custis)

Custis, John (deceased husband of Frances Parke Custis)

Dunbar, Charles, esquire, of Antigua (acting executor of Thomas Dunbar Parke)

Long, Thomas (trustee)

MacKinnen, William (executor of Thomas Dunbar Parke)

Parke, Daniel (son of Thomas Dunbar Parke and Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke)

Parke, Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Dunbar Parke and Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke)

Parke, Governor (deceased father of Frances Parke Custis and Lucy Byrd)

Parke, Julius Caesar (godson of Governor Parke)

Parke, Lucy (daughter of Thomas Dunbar Parke and Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke)

Parke, Lucy Chester Dunbar (widow and executor of Thomas Dunbar Parke and daughter of Catherine Chester)

Parke, Thomas Dunbar (deceased husband of Lucy Chester Dunbar Parke)

Perry, Micaiah (executor of Governor Parke)

Perry, Richard (executor of Governor Parke)

Redwood, Abraham (executor of Governor Parke)

Rodney, Caesar (trustee)

Sydcerf, Dr.Walter (executor of Thomas Dunbar Parke)

Warner, Ashton (executor of Thomas Dunbar Parke)

Description

Estate dispute

Disposition

Reversed; the plaintiffs are allowed to amend the bill by adding the proper parties

Notes

Daniel Parke Custis became the husband of Martha Dandridge, who after his death married George Washington. As reported in Fleming, Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, p.20, Custis was the grandson of Governor Parke. This suit was brought on behalf of Gov. Parke’s illegitimate daughter Lucy in Antigua.

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Dunbar v Custis)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Dunbar)

ESTC: N474424
Counsel

[Signed] Robert Henley; Al. Forrester

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.161–164 (Includes manuscript notes on the appellant’s case and separate pages of manuscript notes, f.169–171)

view

Library

Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection (Includes manuscript notes. 2 copies) (Noted in ESTC? No.)

view

Library

New York Public Library. Schwarzman Building: Rare Book Collection *KF+ 1757 (Northington, R.H. Virginia) (Includes manuscript notes) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.)

Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Custis)

Counsel

[Signed] C. Yorke; Cha. Pratt

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.165–168 (Includes manuscript notes on the respondent’s case and separate pages of manuscript notes, f.169–171)

view

Library

Law Library of Congress: Sir George Lee collection

Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

Not found