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- ↑ Mason, Polly Cary (1946). Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia: A Collection of Abstracts. p. 126. (reprinted by Chesapeake Book Company of Berryville in 1965 and Genealogical Publishing Company in 2003
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- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p.45
- ↑ McIlwaine, H.R. (1914). Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1659/60--1693. Richmond, Virginia, USA: Virginia State Library. pp. x, xvi.
- ↑ John H. Gwathmey, Twelve Virginia Counties Where the Western Migration Began (Richmond: The Dietz Press 1937) p. 13
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