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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1, pp. 106-107
- ↑ McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.
- 1 2 3 Tyler
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library) p. xxi
- 1 2 3 4 McCartney p. 456
- ↑ "Christopher Wormley b. Abt 1618 d. 1643 Gloucester County, Virginia: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties". www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us.
- ↑ McCartney p. 457
- ↑ Virginia will records extracted from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. p. 461, or p. 476 of 999 on ancestry.com.