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- ↑ McCartney, Martha W. (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635 : a biographical dictionary. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 266. ISBN 9780806317748 . Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ Ivor Noel Hume (1994). The Virginia Adventure. pp. 287–288.
- ↑ James Horn (2008). A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. Basic Books. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-0-7867-2198-6.
