Capt. William Custis ¹

  Notes:

He took the oath of allegiance to hereby engage and promise to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without King or House of Lords on 30 March 1651 at Northampton Co, VA.

He married Joan Hall after 1 January 1656 at Accomack Co, VA. According to Whitelaw William Custis (A66) was married 3 times. The first was the widow of Francis Stockley and he lived with her on tract N24 until her death. His first wife is believed to have been the mother of Henry Custis who established the Revenswood (A68A) line and possibly a John Custis of Pocomoke (A162). Whitelaw shows he died and left a will in 1726 when he would have been about 95 years old, which was quite old for that time. James Revell Sr. believes he died much younger and the William who died in 1726 was his son.

Capt. William Custis deeded land as a gift in 1672 at tract A66, Metompkin, Accomack Co, VA. It was in this year that William Custis deeded 300 acres to William and Francis Sacker, they being the heirs of Edward Sacker, dec'd, who had married Frances Stockley, a stepdaughter of Custis. At the seaboard it was north of the piece later sold to Black and from there extended westward along his land and the rest of the Custis land to its head line. In 1688 Francis Sacker died intestate, and a few months after his brother William became sole owner, he left it to his cousin Elizabeth Custis, the daughter of his uncle Henry Custis, who was a half-brother of Sacker's mother Frances (Stockley) Sacker. Elizabeth married Delight Shield, who in 1705 built the first courthouse, other than a tavern, at the present Accomac. Upon the death of Delight Shield in 1744 the title passed to his eldest son William Sacker Shield, who in 1789 left 150 acres each to his brothers Peter and Aser; Peter was to have the home place and after his death it was to go to his son Aser, while upon the death of Peter's brother Aser, his part was to go to a son William S. Shield.

William married Joan Hall.