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- ↑ David Alan Williams, The Phantom Governorship of John Robinson, Sr. 1749, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 68, no. 1 (Jan. 1960) pp. 104-106, JSTOR 4246617
- ↑ "John Robinson (1683-1749) - HouseHistree".
- ↑ Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia 1650-1750 (W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 1984) p. 217
- ↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. V, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1981 ISBN 0-8063-0915-6 pp. 146-147
- ↑ "John Robinson (1683-1749) - HouseHistree".
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly, 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 65, 67
- ↑ Williams pp. 105-106