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- ↑ Capt. William Bassett
- ↑ Jester, Annie Lash, and Martha Woodroof Hiden. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1625. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. Page 327.
- ↑ Harris, Malcolm Hart. Old New Kent County. Pages 49-52.
- ↑ Jester, Annie Lash, and Martha Woodroof Hiden. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1625. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. Page 109.
- ↑ Harris, Malcolm Hart. Old New Kent County. Page 47.
- ↑ Hill, Judith Parks America. A History of Henry County, Virginia, with Biographical Sketches of Its Most Prominent Citizens and Genealogical Histories of Half a Hundred of Its Oldest Families. Bowie, Md: Heritage Bks, 2003. Pages 122-123.
- ↑ "Tour 6".
- ↑ "New Kent-Charles City Chronicle - West Point VA 23181 | 804-843-4181".
