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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York, 1915), vol. 1, pp. 314
- ↑ Rutman, Darrett Bruce; Rutman, Anita H. (1984). A place in time : Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750. New York. ISBN 0-393-01801-6. OCLC 9783430.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Tommy L. Bogger and The Black Church Cultural Affairs Committee, A History of African-Americans in Middlesex County 1646-1992 (Whitestone, Virginia, HS Printing 1995) pp. 5-6
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly, 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 54, 65, 67
- ↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. V, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1981 ISBN 0-8063-0915-6 pp. 146-147