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- ↑ McCartney, Martha W. Jamestown People to 1800. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. 2012) ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. p. 13
- ↑ McCartney pp. 187, 384
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619–1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. xxi