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References
- ↑ Botetourt County Deed Book 5:264-81.
- ↑ James Herron, "Surveys Between the James River and the Tennessee Line" in Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia Vol. 17 (June 1835) p. 369. ("The ridge between the two rivers is crossed at a wretched hamlet called Howrytown.")
- ↑ Stoner 1962, p. 146.
- ↑ Kegley 1938, p. 177-181.
- Stoner, Robert D. (1962). A Seedbed of the Republic. Roanoke Historical Society. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-22384. OCLC 2343718.
- Kegley, Frederick B. (1938). Kegley's Virginia Frontier, The Beginning of the Southwest, The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783. The Southwest Virginia Historical Society. OCLC 1536295.
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