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- ↑ Martha W. McCartney, Jamestown People to 1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1) p. 174
- 1 2 3 Kukla, Jon (1981). Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776 . Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0-88490-075-4.Kukla, pp. 68-69
- ↑ Kukla1
- ↑ McCartney
- ↑ Kukla writes 200 acres in Nansemond patented in 1656, and that Godwin sold some of his York county acreage that year
- ↑ McCartney
- ↑ McCartney
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. xiii, 32, 35, 41.
- 1 2 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- ↑ Kukla, p. 67
- ↑ McCartney
- ↑ Leonard pp. 65, 67, 72
- ↑ McCartney
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