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References
- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, "Harwood, Col. John Stubblefield" in Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. 4, p. 447 also available at hathitrust.org
- ↑ rotosweb cite cannot be cited here but may be duplicated in documentation for historic site operated by city of Newport News
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person: Virginia: 1607-1624/5 (4th Ed.), Vol. 2 p. 304
- ↑ Jim Harwood, The Harwood Family, Including Allied Families (Norfolk, 1998) p. 15
- ↑ Jim Harwood p. 14
- ↑ Col. and Mrs. Arthur H. Vollertsen, Warwick County, Virginia 1782-1880: Who Was Who (Newport News Bicentennial Committee), pp. 2, 9
- ↑ Netti Schreiner Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Virginia, Genealogical Books in Print, 1987) p. 951
- ↑ Tyler
- ↑ Dorman p. 308
- ↑ Eckenrode, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution vol.1 p.207
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 127, 131, 135, 143, 147
- ↑ Dorman vol.2 pp. 308, 524
- ↑ DAR #1008528
- ↑ compare rootsweb site and Jim Harwood at pp. 14-15