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- 1 2 3 Cabell, James Branch (1915). The Majors and Their Marriages. W. C. Hill Printing Company. p. 47.
- ↑ Masons of Southside Virginia
- ↑ "Masons of Southside Virginia" available unpaginated at https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/masons-south-of-the-james-river/
- ↑ Masons of Southside Virginia
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. 56
- ↑ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography vol.1. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 286.
- ↑ Masons of Southside Virginia