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- ↑ McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800: landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.
- ↑ Papenfuse, Edward C.; Day, Alan F.; Jordan, David W.; Stiverson, Gregory A. (1979). A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789. Vol. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 227. ISBN 0-8018-1995-4. available at https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000426/html/am426--227.html
- 1 2 3 4 McCartney p. 120
- ↑ Tyler p. 215
- 1 2 Tyler
- 1 2 3 Papenfuse
- ↑ McCartney
- ↑ Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: the Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond: The Library of Virginia 2004) pp. 55-56
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 46, 47