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- ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 180.
- 1 2 3 4 5 John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004)) vol. 1, p. 840-841
- ↑ Tyler, Lyon G., "Pedigree of a Representative Virginia Planter", William & Mary QuarterlyJan. 1893 also in Genealogies of Virginia Families: From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.) 1982) vol. II, pp. 173-174, 185
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 77, 80, 82
- ↑ Jerilyn Eby, Land of Herrings and Persimmons: People and Places of Upper Stafford County, Virginia p. 36
- ↑ Virginia Gazette (Rind) 30 March 1769 p. 3 column 2 (available online)
- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, "Digges" William and Mary College Quarterly, vol. 3 (1894) p. 143