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- ↑ Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1, p. 254
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004)) vol. 2, p. 299
- ↑ Cannot cite various rootsweb pages giving birth dates as 1642 or 1645, although land was patented in his name in 1650 according to Tyler Vol. 4 p. 447; also if he was born in 1648 or 1649, he would have reached legal age in 1670, when he claimed his inheritance, below
- ↑ Dorman pp. 301-302
- 1 2 3 Dorman p. 302
- ↑ Jamestown 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, Virginia Colonial Records Survey Report No. 850 item f140ro (1677) SR00749 p. 10 of 15 on ancestry.com
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 48, 52
- ↑ Dorman pp. 302-303
- ↑ Jim Harwood, The Harwood Family, Including Allied Families (Norfolk, 1998) p. 14
- ↑ Jim Harwood p. 15 states that William Harwood (1736-Octo. 1, 1795) had lived at "End View" plantation and named his son Humphrey (1763-1863) after this man (his grandfather).
- ↑ Dorman pp. 203-304
- ↑ According to Jim Harwood, that Capt. Thomas Harwood was born about 1705 and had a son Harlow Harwood, although it does not name the wife/mother
- ↑ Dorman p. 307