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No one has produced any proof that the William Terrell who married Susannah Waters was the son of William who was born 1629. The fact that Robert Terrell, in his will, named his nephew, William, son of brother William, cannot be accepted as proof, so there is as much evidence that William, of Hanover County, was a son of Richmond as that he was a son of William b. 1629.
- ↑ "Top 1000 Names". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 Roberts, Gary Boyd (2009). Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- ↑ Reitwiesner, William Addams. "Ancestry of Barack Obama". William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services. Washington, DC. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ↑ Terrell, Edwin H. (1909). Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell Family of Virginia and its English and Norman-French Progenitors. San Antonio: San Antonio, Tex.