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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915), vol. 1 p. 217
- ↑ Burton J. Hendrick, The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family (New York, Halcyon House 1935) p. 66
- ↑ Return Jonathan Meigs, The Corbins of Virginia: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Corbin who Settled in Virginia in 1654 (1940) p. 12
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 79, 82
- ↑ Paul C. Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (Oxford University Press 1990) p. 54. Though the author was director of the Virginia Historical Society until 1985, the book lacks footnotes
- ↑ Wright, F. Edward (2014). Westmoreland County, Virginia : marriage references and family relationships, 1653-1800. Millsboro, Del.: Colonial Roots. OCLC 897378761.
- ↑ Nadel p. 59
- ↑ McGaughy, J. Kent (2004). Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742533851. p. 172
- ↑ Augusta B. Fothergill, Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia 1654-1800 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1973) pp. 144-145
- ↑ Nadel p. 55
- ↑ Nadel pp. 55-59