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References
- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915), vol. 1 p. 217
- ↑ Return Jonathan Meigs, The Corbins of Virginia: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Corbin who Settled in Virginia in 1654 (1940) pp. 2, 6, 7
- ↑ Meigs pp. 7-8
- ↑ Jessie M. DeBusk, Louise E. Gray, Charles L. Price, Jr. and Dorothy M. Price (eds), Family Histories of Middlesex County, Virginia (Ralph Wormeley Branch Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 1982) p. 16
- ↑ Tyler
- ↑ Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 58, 59, 60, 62, 68, 77
- ↑ Meigs pp. 9-10
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1891) vol. 2 p. 146